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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The digging is done…though not the best thing to do for 6 hours straight right after spending 4 hours running around West Ed Mall doing the Unknown Challenge for Dell in the 2007 Edmonton Corporate Challenge Games this year… We started on the trellises and still have to attach the mesh. we ran away since [...]
Continue reading about Digging all done at the Millwoods plot!
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 [...]
