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2021 Garden Log
2021 Garden Log

Gather Medium Sized Plastic Bottle Pots For Toms, Grow 1st Batch In Them, Divide Toms After A Few Weeks, Then Grow 2nd Batch In Them, Upstairs Only Where Its Warm And Avoid Mold!

Next Year: People Love Hot Habaneros And Jalapenos, And Also Want Sweet Bells And Lunchbox!
jan
03 04 06 - dried peppers in the fridge
08 10 13 14 - Seed Starting

Need more shishitos for us.
drill holes in vitamin bottles.
plant our peps in bigger bottles, plant sale peps in cell packs. plant tomatillo.
get gloves and use them for dealing with hot pepper seeds.
start making paper pots.

feb
03 05 06
11 15 - bp sprout leaves first 19 20 24 27 28

grow 2 masses each of tomatilo and ground cherry in feb.
Buy 2" square pots for planting tomatoes in. Buy clear tray for bottom watering.
Put up ads for seed sale - Pumpkin & squash.

mar
01 02 03 05
06 07 09 14 15 20 22 23 24 25 28 29 30

Start toms on march 1st.
Keep Our Own Tomato Plants separate. Start Plants Early!
buy morning glory seed

Bee balm- start now

apr
07 08 11 17
20 21 25 27

Have the New Counter ready with lights.
Buy Hose ASAP
Buy bone meal
buy fetilizer

Echinacea, cosmos- Start now

may
06 11 15
16 17 18 20 22 24

No Blood Meal For Callas, Or Any Flower. Probably None For Anything Else Either.
Tomatillos In Bigger Container. Square Red pot Is Drying Out Too Much.
Put Shishito In More Accessible Place. buy dragon roll may 15 at home depot.
Sunflower- start now
Basil: more lettuce leaf, less sweet. around 6 long pots of basil no more
Nations: buy marigold & zinnias?

last spring frost toronto May 11-20

jun
02 03 06
09 10 13 15 22 24 29

Line Of Poblano Plants Along The Front Fence
Don't Over Mulch Small Seedlings! Keep More Plants For Us And Make Them Bigger (Toms).
Don't overcrowd near tree and fence. plants can get neglected in that area b/c overgrowth.
Protect Freesias with wire netting

jul
01 03 04
07 08 11 12

Top The Onions During Summer, To Make Big Onions. started fertilizing every week or so-blooming fert.

aug
07 08 12
13 17 19

Harvest tomatoes earlier to prevent blemishes and cracking from fall rains.
Look for red corn in stores!

after frost, harvest onion seeds and plant bee balm.
Harvest coneflower heads for seed, when stems are black, not green.

flowers to plant: echinacea, sunflower, orange, white cosmos, crackerjack marigold, bee balm
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