Switch Grass Shenandoah

Name:   Switch Grass
Variety:  Shenandoah
Type: perennial grass
Height: 3 ft

Sun: Full Sun
Flower color:  None
Bloom Time:  none
Fragrance:  none
Location:  planted south side at the east end of the garage
care:  fertilize monthly with bloom booster.  cut down to ground in fall


Purchased at Arbor Farms.  It was cropped.

Summer Sweet

Name: clethra alnifolia
Variety:  Ruby Spice
Type:  Shrub
Height:  6' x 6'

Zone: 3

Sun:  Partial Sun to Shade

Flower Color: light pink

Bloom Time: late summer

Fragrance:  yes

Location:  se back yard border north of vibernum

Care:  Fertilize with spikes in spring.   Dead head early spring.

Purchased at English Gardens

Vegetables

 1 pack yellow onions --Sells

1 Sweet 100 --Sells

1 grape tomato--Zwicki

1 large tomato glamour--zwicki

4 early girls --zwicki

+ 4 paper pots from our seeds

8 california wonder, green pepper--zwicki

4 zucchini--zwicki

4 red cabbage--zwicki--failed

4 red romain--swicki

4 celery--zwicki

1 cilantro--zwicki

Seeds:

gutter garden with black seed lettuce

10 snow peas

12 red onions

2 cucumbers

5 swiss chard

2 brussell sprouts

couple dill seeds 

3 long beans

6 green beans

2 rows medium long carrots

gutter garden bunching onions

Planted 2 pots marigolds around the green beans, 1 pot plus onions around the swiss chard, 2 pots plus pack of 4 around in front of the north side lot.   

Red Hot Poker

 

Name:  Kniphofia 

Variety:  Red Hot Poker Pyromania Hot and Cold

Type:  Perennial

Height:  36"

Sun:  sun

Flower:  varigated white to orange

Bloom:  early to mid summer

Fragrance:  no

Care:   Mulch in fall  Zone 5b.  Fertilize weekly in summer.  Dead head spent blooms

Geranium Bloodred Max Frei

 Geranium Bloodred Max Frei 

Name: Geranium sanguineum
Variety:  blood red max frei
Type:  perennial
Height:  6"
Zone: 4

Sun:  full sun

Flower Color: light to dark pink

Bloom Time: summer

Fragrance:  no

Location:  west side perennial garden middle between balloon flowers and sedum 

Care:  liquid fertilize weekly in summer.   cut to ground winter

Purchased Abbotts nursery

Two Toned Iris

 

Name: Iris
Variety: Iris
Color: light purple and dark purple flowers
Type: Perennial
Height: 3-4'
Sun: Full sun

Bloom Time: Late May

Location:  Back of perennial garden by garden north of light purple iris

Care:   Fertilize with liquid feed weekly.  Dead head when blooms are spent. Cut down in fall.

We purchased this from a liquor store that had irises in their parking lot.  Dug it up, planted in spring and it came again the next year.

Clematis Bee's Jubilee

 

Clematis Bee's Jubilee

Name:  Clematis
Variety:  Bee's Jubilee

Type:  Vine
Height:  10'
Zone: 4

Sun:  Partial Sun to Shade

Flower Color: fushia with dark fushia stripe

Bloom Time: summer

Fragrance:  no

Location:  lattice on deck south side  

Care:  Dead head as needed during bloom.   Fertilize monthly with liquid fertilizer.  Cut back to 12" from ground in fall.

Purchased at English Garden
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Annuals

Window Box:--4 red rios from Home Depot.

Front:
2 door pots: 1 each queen tut from Plymouth

  3 colors of sunpatiens for each pot from Zwicki

2 park bench pots:  3 each vinca.  purchased later in season.

2 step pots:  1 each white out superbena from Bonatai

Back:

Upper deck boxes:  3 supertunias each in 2 colors from Plymouth

Step pots:   1 each begonias from Zwicki

Rock pot:  2 begonias from Zwicki

Small table lower deck pot:  1 geranium elegance from Plymouth

Small table large arbor:  1 new guinea from Zwicki

Under chiminea:  16 impatiens from Zwicki

Large arbor hanging pot:   3 double superbells 3 colors from Bontatai

Gate arbor hanging pot:  1 Minifamous Neo Double Pink Calibrachoa Monrovia--Lowes

Upper deck hanging pot:  1 Minifamous Neo Double Pink Calibrachoa Monrovia--Lowes

Shepherd's hook hanging pot:  2 each pots superbells in 2 colors from Plymouth

2 Large square pots:   4 each white allysum, 4 each pink snap dragons Zwicki

Stock:

Front bench pots:  2 snow flurry caladiums

Front long pot:  1 splashed wine, 1 red flash, 1 lemon blush

Front  large Brown Pot:  1 red flash, 1 lemon blush

small brown pot:  1 flash flash

small dark brown pot:  1 fast flash

copper pot:  new orange double begonia from Holland 

back gray pot on gray stool--Dutch carnival dahlia

Back large table pot:  Dahlia top mix red

Tomato Stand:  new orange double begonia from Holland

New Plants

 

Bee Balm Grape Gumball

Name: Bee Balm
Type:  Perennial
Variety:  Grape Gumball
Height:  24"
Sun:  sun to shade 
Flower Color:  grape
Bloom Time: Early Summer
Fragrance:  None
Location:  east side in front of summer sweet
Care:  Fertilize weekly throughout summer.   Cut back in fall

Purchased from Sells 

Bushel and Berry Berry Bux

Name:  Myrtille Arandano 

Type:  bush

Variety:  Berry Bux

Height:  2-3'

zone 5

sun:  sun

flower color:

Bloom time:  summer

Location:  large pot on deck

Bushel and Berry Pink Icing

Name:  Myrtille Arandano

Type:  Bush

Height:  3-4

Zone 5

Sun:  Sun

Flower color

Bloom time Summer

Location:  large pot on deck

Both both shrubs at Stark Brothers.  Came in the mail in quart containers

Repotted into gallon containers with special acid soil from Amazon

Sunk pots into larger pots 

Care:  Fertilize in early spring with holly tone.  Prune out any dead branches

After harvest prune out fruit bearing branches

Report For 2023

Front:

Dianthus did great in the park bench pots but petered out at the end.  Need white flowers. 

Caladium tubers:   Fill 4" pot half way with potting soil.  Water.   Put in the tuber and cover to the top with potting soil.  Water.   Place on cutting board on heat mat on cart by the north alcove window.   Keep wet but don't over water.  Start the first of April.

South:  

When lilies break the soil for spring, uncover the mulch and spread insect killer plus diatomaceous earth on the ground.  Spray lilies as they grow with insect killer and watch carefully for any signs of damage.

Snow peas.   Start the first of March in paper pots in window sill.  Plant once growing strongly--harden in cold frame.  In Middle of July start in paper pots outside.   Plant after cucumbers.

Banana peppers.   Grow 2 plants from seed starting same as beans and cucumbers in grow tent.  Set out by the end of may.  Place on the west side of the west most planting area.   

Onions.   Plant onion seedlings to grow into bulbs.   keep tops pruned back.  Purchase red onion seedlings from Sells.   From seed.  Germinate in warm place in doors first of February.  When sprouted put under light keeping cool.  Plant middle of april.  

Strawberries.   Trim off flowers and runners until the first of July.   Once berries are formed cover with grow cloth to let the berries ripen.  Fertilize monthly with miracle grow performace organic.   Fertilize well in fall with balanced fertilizer espoma berry fertilizer.

Long beans--start the middle of May in 4" pots with potting soil.   Transplant when big to south side of big arbor.

Brussell Sprouts--start in pots first of June with potting soil outside.  When plants are robust transplant them into the soil.

Dill--direct sew seeds middle of May at the sw corner of the large arbor.

Carrots--start pots in tent.   Sew more pots when garlic is harvested.  Fall planting--plant right after garlic is harvested in the ground.  Plant marigolds on both sides

New Guinea impatient.   Plant in copper pot on table.  Keep moist as flowers will need more water.

Cucumbers:  water twice a day--morning and afternoon.  start in grow tent--see spread sheet.

Pots:

Direct sew swiss chard into pots the first of may.   Try small garden in back of hostas.   Plant marigolds in front of them.  

Direct sew radishes into gutter garden first of April.  Spread osmocot buried in the dirt.   

Direct sew seed tape green onions in gutter garden first of May.

Back:

Germinate beans in grow tent.  transplant in may to garden making a tent with cloth and posts and chicken wire on top.

Tomatoes and peppers.   Start in grown tent and transplant in May.   Need 8 tomatoes and 8 peppers

Tubers:  dahlia and cala lily.   plant directly in pot after first frost.    begonia tuber.  plant in 4" pot at the same time as caladiums and using the same planting method.  Geranium; plant in pot same time as caladiums 

Zinnias:  Plant in paper pots Middle of April in grow tent.   Plant first of  June in garden.