Thursday, 21-Apl-11

Yard

• Yesterday Pogo chewed the stick marking the tiny burnt orchid, trampling the orchid in the process. This morning he carried off the new stick and I haven't found the orchid again.
• Lilies of the valley blooming happily.
• Daylilies growing happily.
• The iris from Club Liseron (what color were they I wonder?) have buds now.

Pots

• Two days ago, I put the rest of the red and white (all but one) geraniums in the pot for the glass brick window. The extra white one went in the center of last year's hanging petunia basket, where a petunia of two seems to be making a comeback.

Salad garden

• Lettuce looking good. Basil not.

South Forty

• There are a zillion burnt orchids just below the birches. We've marked a bunch, but Ed found another when he mowed Tuesday evening. Early purple orchid still blooming too.

Potager

• No sign of chives
• Wild strawberries looking happy
• Yesterday we got tomato plants (a mixture of cherry ones plus a group of beefsteak, which are supposed to have few seeds), basil plants (a mixture), and cilantro plants in the post, in the cutest little green greenhouse things, with each plant in each own slot. All but the cilantro look quite healthy. The cilanto looks puny as it usually seems to; even full-grown it looks fragile. Today I potted these up into half toilet paper rolls. Maybe when we return they'll be ready to put into the ground.

Entry

• Nothing happening.

Saturday, 16-Apr-11

South Forty

• The burnt orchid is still there just below the birches; ditto the common early purple below the potager (although I'm wondering if this is another variety).
• The possible forsythia (loto plant) planted yesterday in the NE corner (just below where I planted horseradish last year--no sign of this yet) looks fine.

Potager

• Fraises de bois in the potager are doing fine; some fruits beginning!
• Packet of ciboule blanche seeds (ciboule blanche, Allium schoenoprasum L.) said it had 250. Not. Virgo Kaye counted 146. Planted 3 rows next to the fraises de bois. Pooh. These were supposed to be green onions, but now I think they're chives. Boo. Should be, I think Allium fistulosum aka Welsh onion (oh?).
• Planted in pots seeds for regular courgettes and round courgettes.
• Many jalapeño seeds are up; none of "ancho" chiles, which should be poblano. No chilepetins showing their heads.
• Discovered Germinance had not yet delivered seeds I want to pot now. :-(

Yard

• Lilies of the valley blooming.
• Lawn around flowering cherry is pink with petals.
• Orchis ustulata still there, very small.

Pots

• Put mystery shrub from loto into a proper pot.
• Put lavender from loto into a proper pot.

Friday, 14-Apr-11

Yard

• Noticed burnt orchid near house. Marked with a stick

Pots

• Put astilbe into pot left of gate.
• Put red and white geraniums into pots on fence either side of gate.

Salad garden

• Lettuce looking lively.

South Forty

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Potager

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Entry

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Getting started

A place to record our gardening activities. Maybe it will work, maybe not.

Interesting that blogspot offered this "gardening" look template when I created the blog. That's not the default for the group. But it's OK so I'll keep it for a while.