Wow, has May been busy. Running 2 gardens both an hour away from my home (plus training for a marathon in august) makes for one incredibly busy schedule on top of the usual working and family life. We’ll start with experiments for the front yard this year: Mini-Greenhouses: I bought 2 of these from Home [...]
So the weeds came with a vengeance this week. This will not be fun to pick since while on vacation I nearly had to go into Emergency with some really bad intestinal pain. It’s taken days for it to go away and is only a bit sore now unless I move the wrong way. I [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
The weather is cold and wet, or dry and dust-stormy take your pick! We’ve been out to the Millwoods plot for a couple hours every evening this week so far. We picked up a load of scrap 2×4′s from the construction yard and replaced the really crappy scrap wood we found on monday night. so [...]
Just got back from the Millwoods plot and we got alot done tonight! Found some scrap wood and cut it to size so we have a little over half the boards needed for the frames of the beds. Got the peat moss bales x2…and those really were not fun to attempt to get out of [...]
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A week of bad weather sure slows down the prep at the Camrose site! As well, it put a halt to my efforts to start hardening off the seedlings. I got 1 good day of them being out for several hours in the coldframes and then it became too stormy, wet, and cold to bother [...]
