Thursday, 26-May-11

Yard

• Ed raking up trimmings from baylaurel hedge. Mock orange blooming prettily. Another white-flowered shrub just beyond that also happy. Narcissus path ready for mowing. Grass not growing, but weeds and tree seeds are.

Pots

• No sign of action in the anemone pot. Purchased petunia hanging basket nice. Also the one from last year with the return plant (self-seeded?) plus one pinkish white geranium.
• Potted basil is lemon basil. I meant to get the Mediterranean one, oops.

Salad garden

• One of the basils seems to have disappeared with the fosse septique emptying. Where we also discovered that a lot of the sage has rooted in the ground outside its pot. Should deal with this soon.
• Still picking red-leaf lettuce.
• Ed left only one of last year's cherry toms, but it's doing well.

South Forty

• No sign of asparagus action.
• Ben and Martha doing well, although Martha seems to have some kind of non-lethal fungus.

Potager

• Summer squash doing well enough outside the fence, although they could use more mulch.
• Leaving a narrow path at the end next to fence, I planted 4 staggered rows of corn. The last row (innermost) has two rolls of not-yet-germinated seeds.
• The planting area is too wide to reach the middle from the sides, so I'm leaving some little paths in between blocks of plants.
• Planted out broccolis, all nine of them. (Eggplants still haven't germinated.)
• Planted haricots verts on the odd number hoops between the tomatoes; planted fêves on the even numbered hoops. Right in the ground.

Entry

• Perpetually ugly.

Monday, 16-May-11

Ok, not being very good with this. Quite a bit has happened, with not posts. All that Ican remember right now is that I planted corn seeds last Thursday. And there are 5 beefsteak tomatoes in the potager along with two hills of summer squash (one zucchini, one globe) outside the fenced area.

Yard

• Ed sawed down the krulwilg and is busy cutting up the bits.

Pots

• Moved three jalapeño babies into the pot where I put some chilepetin seeds; no action from them. Still lots of jalapeño babies, what to do with them?
• The poblano/ancho seeds have started germinating at last, so maybe I should try again with chilepetins.
• Potted seeds of broccoli (9) and eggplant (6).
• Potted seeds of nasturiums (8) and sweet peas (8), both climbing type.
• Put the anemone bulbs in a pot whose dirt had been mixed with the water-holding gel. We'll see how that goes. Many too many bulbs for a 30cm pot.

Salad garden

• The four cilantro plants are doing OK, as are the four basil plants. (The fifth cilantro died; the fifth basil is in a pot.)
• The garlic I planted last fall has been eaten by something.
• Ed cleared most of the babies from last year's cherry tomatoes, leaving two behind.
• Lots of the red-leaf lettuce collapsed, but the rest looks quite happy and we've been eating it.

South Forty

• Horseradish has come back finally, behind the probable forsythia, which is doing OK.
• Ben is doing well; Martha has some bug damage, but looking OK to me. (Ed worries.)

Potager

• Put the five cherry tomatoes in the ground. Several have flowers already. Put bamboo hoops between them (where we'll put beans) and a spiral "stick" at each tomato. Next we'll run a bamboo pole between the hoops.
• Munched some fraises de bois.

Entry

• Nothing happening here.