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 [...]
Continue reading about Things that are growing in the Millwoods plot
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 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.
Continue reading about Updated planting layout for Millwoods plot
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 [...]
Checked out the Camrose garden this weekend and did some weeding and watering. The seeds are starting to come up nicely! There is Corn, Sunflowers, some ripening Strawberries, Radishes, Cucumbers, Onions, Squash above the ground now with their first leaves. I didn’t yet see the zucchini and was curious, so dug up a couple seeds [...]
On monday evening a big storm went through that spawned funnel clouds to the northwest of town in Wabamun, complete with hail and rain. The camrose plot got 2.5 inches of rain and some hail that wasn’t large enough to damage anything. We’re going down there tonight to check the progress of everything. We went [...]
After a marathon weekend of planting seeds in a frenzy and getting quite the sunburn, the seeds are all in the ground on both plots! All that remains in Camrose is to put in the vining tomatoes and the potatoes, and the vining tomatoes and the peppers into the Millwoods plot. I have decided to [...]
We went to both gardens last night and planted seeds like mad! Davin and I planted in the Millwoods plot: Parsnips; Davin’s 4 sq ft of: 1. Purple Haze Carrots 2. Romaine Lettuce 3. Early Wonder Beets and 4. White cucumbers! He helped out with the first square, but didn’t want to help with the [...]
