January 1, 2015
Sowed the snow peas in the arbor bedsSowed the beet seeds in the gaps of the beet and chard areas.January 24, 2015
Took photos to see the direct sunlight patterns on the yard three times in the afternoon.
One small cluster of false garlic was blooming.
One flower appeared on the nightshade and some flower buds were about to open.
A few violet wood sorrel flowers appeared in the herb garden and the front yard.
I cut off the broccoli because it was starting to flower. I got a fuzzy picture of a honey bee on the broccoli.
All the bok choi grown from seed has bolted with attractive yellow flowers. I got a pic of a honey bee on the flowers.
January 6, 2015
The temperature briefly dipped below freezing in the early morning.January 7, 2015
The first poblano seedlings emerged in their cups.January 9 – 16, 2015
Cold rainy weatherSowed Black Krim and Gardener’s Delight tomatoes in cups.
Started creating covered trays from plastic spinach containers by cutting of the top 1.5 inch off the tray and cutting about an inch around the edge of the lid.
Secured the tarp on the leaf mold pen using twist ties.
January 17, 2015
A warm sunny dayWent to the Urban Harvest tree sale and bought cowart muscadine, cloud pomegranate, Meyer lemon, frost owart satsuma, and banana fig saplings.
Put the leaves Buck had put in bags and dropped over the fence into my leaf mold pen.
Put unfinished compost on the unused portion of the mound bed and around the edge of the used portion.
Found that the Black Krim and Gardener’s Delight tomatoes had emerged in their cups much sooner than I had expected.
January 18, 2015
A warm sunny day. Bees visited the bok choi flowers. I saw a leaf-footed bug walking on the ground.Moved some of the sticks from the NE corner of the yard to the shady area of the NW of the yard.
Put the muscadine sapling in the ground, at the center point of a 20′ space near the eastern end of the back fence. Will put in the trellis later. I realized I could put the trellises for cucumbers and antelope behind the muscadine trellis since the muscadine trellis won’t shade the things behind it, especially for the first two years.
Covered the new dirt I put out yesterday with leaves.
For the first time, put water in the tray of the seedling cups instead of in the top of the cups. Even though the holes on the bottom of the cups had closed, with water all soaked up into the cups by the end of the day.
Prepared new cups by poking holes in the bottom, as before, then using a box knife to trim off the hole chads so the holes won’t close later.
Restarted Padron and Early Jalapeno peppers in cups because they had failed on the first try. Sowed
Sowed Cherokee Purple tomatoes in cups.
January 24, 2015
Took photos to see the direct sunlight patterns on the yard three times in the afternoon.One small cluster of false garlic was blooming.
One flower appeared on the nightshade and some flower buds were about to open.
A few violet wood sorrel flowers appeared in the herb garden and the front yard.
I cut off the broccoli because it was starting to flower. I got a fuzzy picture of a honey bee on the broccoli.
All the bok choi grown from seed has bolted with attractive yellow flowers. I got a pic of a honey bee on the flowers.
January 31, 2015
Buck had told me he had a trash can full of oak leaves, so I rolled the can over to my backyard and dumped them for mulch.I raked the leaves off the front yard by the curb, and a lot of the grass rhizomes came up.
Horseweed is about a foot tall by the back walkway.
