Garden - 2011

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

This year was the same story as the last two years. There's not enough sun in my back yard due to all the trees. I really only get about 4 hours of direct sunlight. Besides that, some of the plants did ok. I really only care about the corn, but with the lack of sunlight they are never really going to grow well in my yard.

Here's what i grew:

• peppers - red, green, orange, jalapeno
• corn
• sunflowers
• tomatoes - cherry, giant
• gourds
• carrots
• onions
• pumpkins

After the first month.

The sunflowers did the best this year. They grew so high and big that some broke in half on windy days.



The peppers grew pretty well.
They must not need as much sunlight as other plants. The jalapeno's did the best of all the peppers.
The carrots came out ok. Some of them split open and others had weird mutant shapes.
Notice the weird looking carrot.


The gourds on the fence did great too.

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Garden - June 2011

Monday, 20 June 2011

This is the 3rd year i've had a garden and the 2nd year with good soil. I planted more seeds then last year, i didn't space the rows out as much, so we'll see how it goes.

• 3 rows of corn
• peanuts
• sunflowers
• 3 types of tomatoes
• lettuce
• gourds
• squash
• 3 types of pumpkins
• carrots
• peppers

I planted everything when it was 80, then it went down to 40 degrees at night and rained for a week. But i did mix in mulch and pearlite.
Charlie on guard duty. Again this year his job is to kill any animal that try's to eat my corn.

The corn and sunflowers are doing great, squirrels ate the peanuts and most of the potatoes though.

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Backyard Stuff

Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Charlie caught a mouse and tried to bring it in the house... it was still sort of alive.
Eating potatoes and sweet corn from the garden.

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Halfway Garden

Thursday, 12 August 2010

The backyard garden halfway through the season.
Here's what it looked like just after planting. I put the grass clippings down so no seeds would wash away. I also used Preen to help control the weeds. That and grass mulch worked pretty well.
View from the roof while i was up cleaning the gutters and trimming the tree branches.
The beans, cucumber and potatoes grew the fastest.
Again this year, the only thing i really care whether or not it grows, is corn. I planted three rows and it's doing ok. The shade from the tree isn't helping. Then i also found out afterwords that i should have soaked the seeds for 24 hours the day before to help it start germinating.
I also planted some corn along the side of the garage. A couple of them are doing great.
String for the 4 different types of tomato plants
The bamboo shoots came up earlier in the year. Now all of the their energy is going into their roots, which are really starting to spread.

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Dirt in the Driveway

Monday, 17 May 2010

I had 6 yards of 50/50 - topsoil/compost mix delivered for my garden this year. I also had 1 yard of sand for my new underground gutter drain pipes which i'm only half done with.
The total cost was $200. $50 of that was for delivery. It doesn't look like a lot but it was; 7 yards of dirt turned into 72 wheelbarrow loads to the backyard.

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