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June

To do: plant flowers asap. cosmoc, and zinnias. portulaca. Done fill hanging pots and put coleus in them. - Filled 2. water newly planted seedlings everyday. Done
Got a sprout in our wiri wiri! plant cucumber in hanging pot. DOne
Planted PPG amd 2 black pearls in a orange pot on the stairs.
hardening off all our plants to be planted soon.
planted flowers, plus the blue planters with pinwheel and double white zin. which the seeds looked white and weak. also planted short double zin, and eskimo marigold outdoors, in a pot and scattered.

todo: scatter orange cosmos.
move potato pot to pepper area.
plant candy cane zinnias.
prepare flowerbed for zinnias.
plant coleus.
plant tan acorn squash. where?
get peat moss.

planted coleus in 1 basket. planted oorange cosmos in 2 blue hanging planters.

checked on tromboncini seeds and they were rotted, so we took the edges off the seed and the whole seed cap of 3 of them. planted 3 outside, goign to plant 3 more inside.
my wiri wiri sprout does not look like a pepper. looks like corn. yellow cayennes came up we have about 5.
tomorrow planting trinidad scorpion.

Lots of zinnias coming up everywhere and amaranth too.
moving compost from herb barrel
started new compost pile, we made 2.5 l compost yesterday from cooking scraps.
plant herbs, plant peps, toms.
plant glads
fill hanging bskets.

planted 2 toms at ront fence : atomic grape (left) blush tiger (right)

we have toms ready to go into bed: banana legs, black krim, cosmic eclispe, dark galaxy, black cherry, black sea man, sunrise bumble bee = 7.
yellow pear into pot. maybe put black cherry into pot. or cosmic eclipse.
planted sugar rush peach into the lavender pot with the water tank.
planted peppers: (row 1: poblano, ppg). (row 2) trinidad scorpion next to PPG, brazil star next to poblano. (row 3) lemon aji x 2. row 4 choc hab + ? .
peppers left: mustard hab, charapita, lemon aji.

yellow jalapeno looks like its coming up.
plant candy cane zinnias.

planted tomatoes in bed: 1st row: banana legs (left) black krim (right), 2nd row: black sea, sunrise bumblebee. 3rd row: dark galaxy, black cherry. might be room for cosmic eclipse in corner.
planted hanging baskets. one with alyssum purpl, 2 lobelia, firecracker coleus, large orange red leaf coleus and a fuschia red with white center.
got gerber daisy seeds yellow and red.
pothos, plain green philo, p caudata philo,. njoy, green globe, neon brandii.
planted acidenthra. planted some succulents we got from up the road.
yellow jalapeno has 2 plants up! 3rd one coming. also have yellow cayenne and var piquin doing well, and a charapita to plant, and mustard habanero.
next: plant cosmic eclipse, yellow pear, acorn squash, zinnias, potatoes. plant gladialos in the large soil mixing bucket and stake with 6 stakes.
split calendual plants that came up in the flower bed from last years seeds.

recycled veg

splitting up toms due to more plant orders coming. selling our 2 purple peach ghost which we grew from seed. we have 1 from nations planted already. splitup 4 lemon drops, 7 yellow mushrooms with double plants, 5 black cherry, 7 green marble, 4 cosmic eclipse, and 8 black sea man, all of which are the last ones! sold last atomic grape yesterday too.
raining a lot, and the garden likes it. theres big berries ont he josta and the gooseberry. lots of them. we can see the raspberries forming, there are tons.
splitting up gold slicer, striped roman, orange beef - 3, zima.

raspebrry leaves treatment for discoloured leaves. epsom salt.
today we are repotting the philodendren pink princess. planting glads. planting black pearl, 3 peps, and yellow pear. plant last squash. plant potatoes.

the piquin and rainbow pepper did not survive. yellow cayennes look good. yelow jalapeno loks good too. will plant seeds directly. also plant tromboncino - more seeds. and eskimo marigold - plant looks dead. low germination.
runningout of rain water after about 5 days. still have half barrel with a hose in it and the water is scummy with pollen oil and mosquitoes. ran out of peat moss today, our 2nd bag this year. still have some compost and black earth though.
today planted 6 zinnias in the flower bed. planted fingerling potatoes into all 3 potato pots, blue potato, red skin, and other. put compost too.
to do: watering, plant seeds x4. plant glad bulbs.

did a 2nd planting of a lot of seeds. orange cosmos from original stock. my seeds were not viable. direct sowed pink and magneta zinnias into the flowerbed, where i already sowed eskimo marigolds the other day. planted the only tall pink zinnia that grew into the flower bed. about 6 candy canes with a clump of 6 more are in the front part of the bed.
planted chrapita in a big clay pot in the tom bed, and plante d another lemon drop in the pep bed across fromt he chocolate haberno. now there is 8 plants in there, 3 of them lemon aji.
planted yellow caynne seeds into yellow cayenne planter, and some SRP seed with the struggling SRP seedling. R put perrenial sunflower seeds in there.
Going to plant the portulaca around the atomic grape. the front row looks so ordered now because of the 2 squash and 2 tomato plants.
could not find the tromboncino seeds. also planting strawflower again.

Peppers to plant:
yellow mushroom

variegaed piquin seeds

bolivian rainbow seeds

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