709-218-7927 The Landfall Garden House 60 Canon Bayley Road Bonavista, Newfoundland CANADA A0C 1B0 |
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Wednesday, October 01, 2025
Leaves on maple trees and strawberry plants are turning yellow and red; a sign of stress.
I sent off emails to three suppliers of Ivy:
Hello; please will you recommend to me three varieties of ivy plants that might survive in the climate here on the tip of the Bonavista Peninsula, together with an estimated cost of purchase plus shipping plus tax? According to https://planthardiness.gc.ca/?m=22&lang=en&prov=NewfoundlandandLabrador&val=B Bonavista is in zone 5b. Thank you Christopher Greaves The Landfall Garden House 60 Canon Bayley Road Bonavista, Newfoundland CANADA A0C 1B0 CPRGreaves@GMail.com 709-218-7927 NO TEXTING
My plan is to find an ivy species that (a) I can grow as a house plant and (b) can survive as an outdoor plant here in Bonavista.
I reason that if I purchase three species, I have an improved chance of a species passing both tests,
"Lawrence Park Garden Care" info@lawrenceparkgardencare.com
I planted out two (hanging) baskets of maple seeds, one from the tree at 60CB and one from the tree at the $tore. Both by the shed. Theory is that June 2026 will deliver 2x12 maple tree seedlings.
Friday, October 03, 2025
Wade is due up with my load of baulks. He will take back to HH the last three bags of daffodils, gooseberry shrubs, and a couple of jade plants.
I set to lopping a few more branches from my eastern Aspen trees.
Before I recommenced, my eastern set are no taller than Mervin's tree.
The view from the west once I had trimmed all but the last branch from the lower tree, and some of the branches from the upper tree.
When today's lopping is complete, my trees now look like a reasonable height.
When today's lopping is complete, my trees now look like a reasonable height.
When today's lopping is complete, my trees now look like a reasonable height.
My goal, perhaps next year, is to kill these trees and replace them with apple and pear.
Saturday, October 04, 2025
I started around 1445
Given that the brace pieces are trimmed at 45° there is no need to mark with pencil; set the chop-saw at 45°
By 1500 I had made about 18 braces; then spent 30 minutes clearing off the western wall, unscrewing primitive hooks from a batten, …
By 1600 I have created and mounted two brackets AND transferred three small items from the eastern wall to this demonstration shelving
Yes, there remain nails in the top beam that should be removed.. Each bracket receives six screws hammered in before I mount the step ladder.
(1) The top edge of the horizontal bracket is eighteen inches from the top edge of the top beam; every 18" seems to give lots of room.
(2) The anchor point for the horizontal ought to be level with the previous anchor point, using a spirit level. Stacked timber (planking) then should remain flattened out
(3) The foot of the second and following brackets should be nudged into place to keep the outer ends of the horizontals as close tom (spirit-) level as possible.
For that reason only the first screw if each pair of anchor-points is driven in. A temporary placement until levelling is done.
My plan in this shed is to use this first pair of brackets to clear enough space on the western wall to start a proper installation on that wall. Material once stored will (bootstrap) more cleared space on the western wall.
These two brackets will be followed by two more to make demonstration shelving about 64"? long.
Friday, October 10, 2025
Yesterday's rain was light, a mere 5mm, but I collected two pails (50 L) By 1230 today we get another light shower.
Sunday, October 12, 2025
Tonight, the first sub-zero temperature predicted for the season.
Do I do have some large tomatoes; not a (red) ripe one among them, but about ??? pounds; good for my recipe for Green Tomato Chutney.
The clumps of fruit are rare, but good-looking. I paid no attention to these vines excepting one day to tie them up, in August, I think.
The artichokes have decided to wither for the winter; I might come outside and chop off the stalks and drop them in the bed, to be mulched.
Voila! My four pails, each with a rhubarb colony; these I can hold in the shed over winter.
Monday, October 13, 2025
I wake at 0430 and the weather page reports 0c outside, bub rising to 14c and sunny. A good day to work in the shed and in the yard. Coil hoses, tack tools, mount three brackets; model the derrick. Rain, perhaps, on Saturday.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
For the past two evenings, the sun, rising, has struck face-on the STOP-sign at the western end of my street; this occurs twice each year (for a few days) and so the STOP-sign acts like my local Stonehenge.
I unscrewed those baulks, and will try to drill them tomorrow morning; use the 2x4 chunks to mow down the Jas, coil the hoses, mount brackets. CLEAR THE FLOOR.
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Vermicomposting: I have my two new bins in the kitchen, and the old one on the balcony. A shipment of worm eggs has hatched out in one of the kitchen bins. I think I will be served by:-
(a) Tipping the new bins onto a groundsheet
(b) Mixing those two piles to distribute the worms and any worm eggs
(c) Emptying the old bin into the two new bins
(d) Halving the newly-mixed colonies into the two new bins.
Then I can discard that old bin.
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Fresh on bottling (in 18 jars) 92 apples donated by Elaine, it is time to plant the valuable cores.
I used six seed trays to hold cans of soil. Each can has two holes in the base to provide drainage next spring. There are filled with loose soil some 75 cans.
Into each can is pressed, with a gloved thumb, one apple core; except the four large cans receive two cores at opposite sides of the can. So, 79 cores have been planted.
In some of the cans you can see a vague off-white sign, that is the top of the core.
Each core will shoot ten to fifteen seedlings, so mid-may 2026 I anticipate 800 to 1,200 seedlings of a species I have named "Elaine".
Eight cores are left over; they will be placed in the refrigerator and "canned" later in the winter.
We expect no rain until next Friday night, so I shall prop up these racks and give them a light hosing to clear any surplus grit from the seed boxes; tomorrow morning, drained, the trays can be stacked in the porch to chill, freeze, and thaw, at which time I will take them outside to sprout.