Archive for October, 2010

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Garlic goes in 2010

Oct25
by kevin on October 25, 2010 at 07:30 and modified on October 26, 2010. at 13:35
Posted In: gardening, garlic

Saturday October 23rd, the garlic goes into the ground.
We picked bed Veg4C this year, rotating away from Veg2&3.
About a month ago a wheelbarrow of compost and a bag of sheep manure went in and we tilled it up with a little Mantis tiller.
Over 31 varieties went in, and depending on how many cloves per type of garlic bulb, between 4 and 10 cloves went in of each type.
We managed to get 13 rows in, cloves spaced about 4-5″ apart and rows about 1′ apart, when we discovered we still had more garlic to plant.

So out came the tiller again for 3 more rows in Veg 4B.
The rains came in the afternoon and we are expecting warm highs and warm lows for the next two weeks (according to the Weather Network), so the garlic should grow some roots and get established before the ground freezes.
We use 1″x2″ stakes with the names of the type written in red paint, at the head end of each section.
36 types in total this year.
Row 1: French , US Roma
Row 2: Artichoke Formidable, US Republican
Row 3: German Red , Spanish Roja
Row 4: Japanese, Korean Purple
Row 5: Northern Siberian, Georgia Crystal
Row 6: Ginki, Georgian Fire
Row 7: German White, Inchellium
Row 8: Czech Broadleaf, Shouldice, Japanese Sikura
Row 9: Chesnock Red, Metechi
Row 10: Silverskin, Alberta Hardy
Row 11: Carpathian, Mennonite
Row 12: Italian Lorenz, Russian Red?
Row 13: Duganskij, Slovak
Row 14: Musical, Ted3, Polish Jenn, Magnificent
Row 15: Ted40, Tibet, Siberian Marble, Solent Wight, US Polish

Row 16: Bulble project in cups: 1&2=luciano sicilian, 3&4=silverskin40, cupless korean purple, 5&6=czech broadleaf, 7=spanish roja, 8=?
9=us replublican 10&11&12=spanish 13=ginki 14= northern siberian, 15=georgian red, 16=mennonite, 17=chesnock red

Two good articles from our local guru Paul Pospisil: How to Plant Garlic and How to Harvest Garlic

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fall?

Oct21
by kevin on October 21, 2010 at 09:43 and modified on October 21, 2010. at 09:45
Posted In: gardening, garlic, weather

You can tell the warm season is coming to a close.
We’ve had frost 5 nights now, mostly mild but enough that the plants know.
We have one more week of food from the Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) that we tried out this year.
The Community Garden in Napanee is winding down and getting prepped for plowing under this week.
At the Lennox & Addington Horticultural (L&A Hort) meeting this week, the talk was about looking for wildflowers blooming in the spring!
Tonight we are scheduled for another frosty night.
The garlic will be going in the ground in the next 3 weeks, depending more on time to do it, but as long as the ground is not frozen… we will be good to go.

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Stargate Atlantis

Oct14
by kevin on October 14, 2010 at 09:53 and modified on October 14, 2010. at 09:54
Posted In: Science Fiction

Having finished off 10 seasons of Stargate SG1 a couple of months ago, we started in on the next series sequel, Stargate Atlantis.
I think we have pretty well adjusted to the new set of characters and the storyline and more and more (now in season 2) it is interwoven with the first series, which is also fun.

Now that the fall has arrived (along with 3 frosty nights), we may have a little more time to finish off the series sooner than later.

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Prep the garlic

Oct05
by kevin on October 5, 2010 at 05:29 and modified on October 19, 2010. at 09:15
Posted In: gardening, garlic

We have chosen Veg4C as the bed to plant the garlic in the next week or two. Yesterday we cleared out the area or about 8’x23′ or 200 ft^2
added a wheelbarrel of compost salvaged from the dismantling of the old
composter, and finally a bag of sheep manure from Canadian Tire.
We fired up the mantis tiller and went over the bed a couple of times.
It still needs more soil, as the tiller was bottoming out against the bedrock, but we will have to wait until after the july harvest to add more.
This is not a true raisedbed, but rather a pile of dirt on the back peat/loam area that is now Veg4c. It is surrounded by the Lee Valley black nylon deer fence, now approaching its 2nd winter, but nothing but leek moths bother the garlic.

Two good articles from our local guru Paul Pospisil: How to Plant Garlic and How to Harvest Garlic

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shoot the stars

Oct01
by kevin on October 1, 2010 at 05:18 and modified on October 1, 2010. at 05:24
Posted In: astronomy

Shoot the Stars in L&A County photo contest.

I posted the following summary of the contest a couple of weeks ago:
The photo contest is part of a marketing idea for L&A county economic
development.
3 prizes: $250, 125, 75.
photos must be taken in L&A county.
max 3 submissions per person
reformatted down to 1024×768
and emailed into the contact person.

But let’s go a little deeper.

L&A County is Lennox and Addington County
http://www.lennox-addington.on.ca/

The photo contest is open to all photographers – amateurs, hobbyists and professionals
alike. Deadline for entries is November 1st at 5 pm.

Lennox and Addington County will host an award ceremony in November to honour contest
winners.

>From the county website
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Outlined below are instructions for submission of your photos.
The typical digital projector resolution is 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels high. Vertical
and horizontal images should be the same overall size, as film slides are now. Therefore
images should be sized to 1024 pixels on the long dimension. Image dimensions will
then be 1024 pixels by approximately 683 pixels.

Saving the image
Save the image as a high quality JPEG file using a quality setting of 90% or better. Aim
for a file size of about 500 KB (kilobytes). You may find the file size in a range of 300 to
600 KB depending on the complexity of the image.

Naming for submission
The file name should include the maker´s name and the title of the photo. This will make
it easier to catalog. For example, if John Doe submitted an image called Bright Lights,
the digital file should be called “Doe_John-Bright_Lights”.

Presentation
Images should be in the proper orientation for viewing.

Submission Directions, Deadline, Quantity
Please email your images to Robert Plumley at rplumley (at) lennox-addiington.on.ca
We will accept a maximum of three photo options and all submissions must be
received by 5 p.m. on Monday, November 1, 2010.

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