First off, I have got the front yard pictures. Our place faces north so the only sun the yard gets is on the north edge. Here’s a pic of everything arranged: In the Camrose plot today I put up 3 more short fences with chicken wire to ‘remind’ the dogs to stay out of the [...]
I planted 2 more containers in my front yard today: The round pot has a Christmas Grape Tomato plant, and a Yellow Pear-shaped tomato plant. Both give small cherries so should be great for the container…assuming they survive our daily thunderstorms. The other long, short, rectangular container is half planted with sage and the other [...]
On the way home from the Camrose garden last night, we hit one of these:Luckier pet porcupine than the one that encountered my car We were pretty fortunate in that the oncoming traffic was far enough away that we didn’t hit any cars in swerving to try to dodge it. Today in the sunlight we [...]
After we got home last night, a big storm rolled in. It was producing nickle and dime sized hail!! Apparently the cloud was spawning funnel clouds before it reached Edmonton, though it’s rotation slowed by the time it reached us thankfully. Here are some pictures of how the plants were doing before the storm, and [...]
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So we went and took a look at the millwoods garden to see how badly damaged things were. In the end, we got away relatively alright. We lost 3 tomato plants and had their cages thrown about, The big Holy Moly pepper plant got pulled up and thrown across a few plots but I found [...]
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I’m really mad this morning, I got an email in from our garden coordinator that major vandalism has occurred at the millwoods plot, broken plants, broken tomato cages, greenhouse glass broken etc and all the gardens apparently got hit. I will be going in after work to take pictures and assess what needs to be [...]
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I went to Hole’s Greenhouse in St. Albert last night to get some replacements for the too windburned peppers and see what they had for vine tomatoes. I couldn’t resist the full grown and already fruiting Holy Mole pepper plant for $15 so picked that up. I also got about 16 other tomato plants to [...]
Continue reading about Final (I hope) planting layout for the Millwoods Plot
Here is the updated planting layout for the Millwoods plot. I still have several squares empty that need something. I’m put in 4 vining tomatoes and another square of romaine lettuce tonight.
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I figured out how to enable commenting for the blog finally. Feel free to leave me some feedback!
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Checked in at the Millwoods plot this evening and did some weeding and picture taking of the new seedlings. I also discovered the pumpkins I wasn’t sure if I had actually planted the seeds or not (note to self: do not plant seeds when tired) had actually sprouted. Those I transplanted to their new home [...]
