Garlic Bulbils planted
Another garlic related project… bulbils. They were planted last night, Monday 2017 Nov 06, in vegbed#7 and covered in straw. The plantings are complete! For more information about garlic please…
Garlic planting Sat 2017 Nov 04
This is the dibbler. It has 6 dowels on the bottom spaced at 6″ apart. Spacing between types of garlic is 8″, with spacing between rows of the same type…
Garden signage for garlic
Three years ago, we printed off the names of the types of Garlic we had and had them laminated at Staples. They were cut apart and stapled onto 1×2 stakes.…
Allsky2 Updates
The Allsky2 computer system suffered a drive failure a month or so ago. Luckily it was part of a software RAID setup, so there was not a lot of lost…
L&A Hort met last night
The Napanee Garden Club (aka The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society) met last night at the Napanee Fire Hall Community Room at 7pm. The guest speaker led off, Mick from…
Killing Frost
That time of year again… -3C and falling this morning. This is cold enough to kill off any garden plant still standing above ground. We harvest peppers the day before.…
LED lighting
Another major light fixture has bitten the dust. Our kitchen light fixture had 3x60watt incandescent bulbs. It was really never enough light for the kitchen and so when we came…
Potatos 2017
It looks like I forgot to post back May the type and numbers of potatos we planted. Since I am about to talk about what we harvested, it would be…
Potato harvest 2017
The potato patch in Veg4 was dug up this past weekend. It took us about 2 hours to dig up 6 hills each of 10? types. Will have to check…
Aurora 20170928
Just before 02:00 Thursday morning we were outside and imaged some aurora stuff. It’s been *ages* since we saw aurora stuff! This is a 30sec exposure on the 13 year…
Solar Eclipse Image Processing
For the 2017 August 21st Total Solar Eclipse, we were onsite in Wyoming taking images with a 13 year old Canon DSLR with a 75-300mm lens, on a manual non-tracking…
Garlic seed available soon
For those looking for garlic seed to plant this fall, rest assured we will have some in the near future. Last week the cleaning and storing of the 500 bulbs…
Garden Prep
The first step in Garden Prep is to get your (*&#^$@#% machinery working again! Our tiller has worked great for 2 or 3 years now… will tear through all kinds…
Solar Totality 20170821
This is it. Totality. The complete eclipse of the Sun by the Moon. It was a long trip from the Kingston Ontario area to Wyoming and a longer trip back.…
Garlic Planting history
The 2016/2017 crop of garlic has been cleaned, weighed, measured and stored away in the cold room. Time to start thinking about the 2017/2018 crop. A summary of when we…