Showing posts with label Spring Bulbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring Bulbs. Show all posts

April 02

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2008


Gardening in the High Desert
  • Watered weeds, veg beds and garlic
  • Some weeds starting to bloom - a delicate lavender one, and one with white flowers. Also tumbleweed now germ along with a new weed that I haven't seen before.
  • First daffs in garden blooming - pale cream yellow
  • Weeded all beds
  • Irises growing like crazy
  • Large rabbit tracks in the garden
  • Time to feed and water trees - they are starting to break dormancy
  • I am thinking of buying some onions and some garlic at the store to grow - just to see what happens
  • Forgot to water my oregano transplant. Well, I guess we'll see just how bought it really is.
  • Got to sleep good, gt to work early, go home early and then take lots of photos of the garden tomorrow
  • More pease are up

2011


Gardening in the High Desert
  • Water garlic, peas, spinach, daffodils
  • Pulled grass from 3 west rows in corn patch and added osmocote fertilizer. It is ready to receive seeds
  • Finalized oasis plan
Received from a trade on Dave's Garden from R.X.
  • 6 flying saucers morning glories
  • 6 purple white stripped morning glories
  • 6 star of yenta [morning glories]
  • Lots African Marigold
  • 6 Mexican Sunflower
  • Summer thyme
  • Lemon Balm
  • Anise Basil
  • Salad Burnet
  • Crystal White Wax Onion
  • Pepper Mint
  • Pkg Scarlet O'Hara [MG]
  • Pkg Heavenly Blue [MG]
  • Pkg Tall Mixed [MG]
  • Pkg Forget-Me-Not
  • Pkg Purple Cone Flower
Sent in exchange
  • Spinach - Bloomsdale
  • Spinach - Matador
  • Sages - Broad Leaf, Blue Bedder Salvia, Culinary Sage
  • Garlic Chives
  • Basil - unknown small leaf, cinnamon
  • Lemon cuke
  • MG - ground
  • Lavender moon flower

2012

Gardening in the High Desert
The gale-force wind from yesterday seems to have abated, so maybe today I will go out in my barren garden and see what's alive. Even though there are no veggies to put out yet, the strawberries and irises and daffodils should be making an appearance, along with lemon balm, oregano, thyme, and rosemary.

December 03

2006

Gardening in the High Desert.

Plant/Sow Page

  • 20 Metron Tulips in the bronze oval planter that held daffodils last year
  • 4 small winter pots - 3 with 3 lavender mixed crocus and one with 4 of them
  • 2 clay pots - each with 3 Queen of the Night tulips and 8 lavender mixed crocus
55 Bulbs

Sprinkled all with bone meal and put in metal building for a few months chilling after watering.

350 Bulbs as of 11/26/2006
 55 More today
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405 total so far - several hundred left

Journal Entry Later in the day

17:28

  • Planted some pots for Spring forcing
  • Son started digging me a bulb planting trench near the dogs' pen
  • Filled bird feeders
  • Sprinkled bone meal on daffs from last year

Now that I am mostly over my cold, I hope I can get on with the bulb planting program.  Still hundreds left to plant.

08 – August – To Do

2006

2007

Goats



2006


  • DONE – Order Garlic before mid-Sept (Ordered 2006-08-12; arrived 2006-09-25)
  • DONE – Order the fancy daffs – last spring's were great (Ordered 2006-June)
  • Grand Gala Apples are ready for harvest in August in zone 5 (2006-August – no apple harvest this year; 2007-07-29 not this year, either)
  • Plant Trees
  • [Plant] Winter Rye

2007


  • Plant Trees
  • DONE – Squash planted mid-June should be ready for harvestsoon (2007-07-29 – 4 zukes almost ready; right on schedule)
  • Pick up trash [along fence line]
  • Update website
  • DONE – Take more photos
  • Mulch Trees
  • Spray Deer-away

Goats

  • Breed angoras in Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov after fall sheering so they will kid after spring sheering

November - To Do - Week 1

2009

2010


2009

Gardening in the High Desert.
  • Move bird feeders to garden area
  • Set up nest boxes [for wild birds]

2010

Gardening in the High Desert.
  • DONE - Clean, set up bird feeders [for wild birds]
  • Mix chicken feed [make 25% corn chicken scratch + 75% chicken layer pellets]
  • Feed/Water houseplants
  • DONE - Stock up on [wild] bird feed
  • Clean chicken coop
  • DONE - Mulch strawberries
  • Wrap trees
  • Deep water pines
  • Turn Compost
  • DONE - Keep bird feeders filled
  • Take more photos
  • Feed houseplants
  • Deer-off [for trees - keeps bunnies from eating bark]
  • Continue planting spring bulbs
  • Shred paper for mulch