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 [...]
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
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
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 [...]
