Garden Notes

Back yard

• considering getting rid of what I think is a Prunus Cerasifera (often called purple-leaf plum).

ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_plum

ref: http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/trees-new/prunus_cerasifera.html

Planter

• Sage see also Sage Oil
• Thyme

Considering enlarging the garden, need to consider racoons and squirrels.

• Lilac
• Compost Heap

2012 Season

From Left to right:

• Lettuce
• Cherry Tomato
• Bean
• A Row of Zucchini
• Another row of Cherry Tomato
• A Row of Zucchini
• Snap Peas
• Tomato + Potato
• Pumpkin
• Pepper

Lessons taught from this year: put the Zucchini on the end so it can "over flow, without shading plants nearby.

Lessons Learned this year: pinch the armpits of the tomato, this keeps the tomatoes from getting to leggy, it limits grow , but ensures that tomatoes that do grow , grow well. And I have no shortage of flowers ( as of july ).

Potted Basil is growing like gang-busters from last year's seed.

2013 Season

• Half Cherry Tomatoes / Half Plum Tomatoes
  • Did much more nipping of flowers and get better results, could nip more flowers.
• Kale
• Strawberry - Lots of fruit for one plant, could do more.
• cauliflower - let it go to see, need to harvest sooner.
• snap peas - Need to figure out how to get better yield here. Few plants were productive.
• Pumpkin / Squash and pumpkin squash
  • Good Growth
  • Good crop
  • Took WAY too much ground cover. left the raised box , covered the lawn. Poor lawn.
  • Next year: Grow up, sturdy trellis needed.
• Habenero peppers
  • Three plants,
  • great yield
  • good flavour
  • great heat
  • Great colour , brilliant orange.
  • Some fruit at end of year were still green, some ripened, but many stayed green.
• Sage
  • Good crop
• Eggplant
  • Good crop, some grew to good size,
  • Many didn't get big, Colour was purple but I felt like they were green.

Herbs:

• sage
• mint
• thyme , several potted plant did ok, they seem a bit more delicate. In the ground samples did well. - at the end of the year everything was dug up due to Deck expansion

2014 Season

Plan

• get deck setup with planters / Pots - done.
  • This is an opportunity to create "full sun" positions.
  • consider also: drainage , and root depth.

• tomatos as before: 50/50 cherry + Plum
• Eggplant - none -
• Some sort of squash - grow up-wards.

Herbs:

• lavender - one potted, some in raise boxes, from seedling.
• sage - planted in raised boxes from seedling.
• Thyme - planted in a planted from seedling

Gallery

Early Summer

Mid Summer

Sedum Beds:

2015 Season

plan

• roma tomato
• cherry tomato
• potato
  • took a while to get started
  • boxed it up with some spare bits of wood. boxed up about 2 feets, we shall see if
  • See Potato Notes
• horse radish , two plants doing well ( one that I tough was dead "came back" )
• sage - came back from last year, doing well.
• zucchinni - potted - fruits showing as of July.
• irish moss ( resurcet what little survived over the winter.) going well David (talk) 18:42, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

• soil was lightly ameliorated in spring

2017 Season

FIXME

original

2018 Season

no notes , boo!

2019 Season

did lots of small tomatoesand then failed to harvest them properly and ended up with a lot of rotten tomatoes on the vine.

I did do some pinching of buds and flowers and that seem to help have better bunch of ripe tomatoes, but I really didn't give the garden that much love this year.

I also did curly kale and got a good harvest from that, using it for cabbage salad and stir fries. But I did get , towards the end of the season a very bad case of aphids or mites or something.

Notably one of the patches I did not plant at all but instead let grow what ever. I eneded up with a fantastic bed of corriander, thyme, sunflower, and a little dill.

This year there was no garlic, but I'm ready for garlic next season. It's not in the ground yet, but should be soon David (talk) 00:35, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

2024 season

• Currants: two big crops early in the season, then nuthin' for the rest of the season.
• Raspberries and black raspberries: steady "flow" of stuff early to mid season, August and all done now.
• Tomatoes - steady growth and a few ripe tomatoes mid season. I augment daily cooking with fresh red tomats!
  • San Marzano
  • Beafsteak
• Zucchini - 5 good size specimens, some gifted about.
• Summer Squash , one exemplar ready by midseason , and harvested , and the plant has withered.
• Mint productive in their pots ( count 4 )
• Green beans, nothing and it's august :(
• Kale productive: Can't eat it as fast as it grows; Crunchy cabbage, kale ,carrots salads abound.
• Blueberry struggling , not productive.
• Potted Citrus ( lime, lemon, tangerine from store-bought fruit) : growing well , not productive but solid wood.
• Thai Chilies" : Four plants , small , but _very_ productive with small exemplars. Good flavour - win!
• Yellow Peppers : I forgot these were yellow and harvester 4 large peppers green. not edible :P . But quite productive more on the way.
• Rhubarb : Productive, two crops so far.
• Garlic : lots of small bulbs. I didn't plant this well. lots of work for a small amount of garlic. used it in Arvinda's Vindaloo

See Also

• Garden Ideas
• Vegetable-growing-cheat-sheet