House of Steel
David Weber’s latest novel (Baen.com) arrived in fine form a few days back. One short story and a lot of reference material that was pretty darn good.. modelled after Jane’s…
David Levy Speaking Tour Kingston Event
Join us this spring when eight centres of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) will host a rare lecture tour by famous astronomer and comet discoverer David H. Levy.…
L&A HortSoc Plant Sale Saturday May 18th
The Lennox And Addington Horticultural Society will be hold its Annual Fundraising Plant Sale on Saturday 2013 May 18th at the Napanee Market, just behind Napanee Town Hall. Start Time…
Tamworth Seedling Sale 2013 May 25
The GrassRootGrowers of Tamworth and Erinsville are having a spring seedling sale on Saturday 2013 May 25 from 10-2 at the Beaver Lake Lions Park, Highway #41 in Erinsville. For…
starman alpine garden
The Starman Alpine Garden. A nice little flower bed with alpine plants that requires no maintenance other than weeding and pulling grass once in awhile. It is located under a…
Raised bed topups
The raised veg beds were themselves raised another garden tie level in the last few weeks. This is a 3″x5″ nominal piece of wood, raising the wall height by 3″.…
Is the Canadian Federal Government Incompetent or Criminal?
You’ve read about the Canadian Forces F35 fighter jet fiasco over the last two years. You’ve read about the Victoria-class_submarine fiasco. — Although the Canadian government touted the $750 million…
Black Flies
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fly A black fly (sometimes called a buffalo gnat, turkey gnat, or white socks) is any member of the family Simuliidae of the Culicomorpha infraorder. They are related to…
Raised Bed Upgrades
We have many raised beds, all built up and modified each and every year since 2002. In 2012 they were roughly 3 courses of garden ties, maybe 9″ deep. That…
Achieving Weather Resilient Gardens
http://www.cityofkingston.ca/residents/city-calendar-events?p_p_auth=pxizK5aK&p_p_id=8&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_col_id=column-3&p_p_col_pos=1&p_p_col_count=2&_8_struts_action=%2Fcalendar%2Fview_event&_8_eventId=551645&_8_redirect=%2F Complicated link above, no? Thank the City of Kingston’s new website. In any event: Communities in Bloom Kingston presents Achieving Weather Resilient Gardens Date: 5/8/13 In human terms this…
What do you do on a 22 deg C Sunday?
What do you do on a 22 deg C Sunday? – till up a vegetable bed, pull out the grass roots, add 5 bags of sheep compost (1 bag/50ft^2) –…
Heirloom Plant Day Tuesday May 21st, 2013
From the Heirloom Seed Sanctuary: Learn how to save vegetable, flower and herb seeds from your own garden! Join us Tuesday May 21, 7-8:30 pm for Heirloom Plant Day where…
SETI@Home Update
An update on our seti@home progress. The SETI@Home client program was recently upgraded and today we downloaded v7.0.64 to install on the PCs and v7.0.65 for the macs. We are…
Winter is coming!
a line from the Game of Thrones… quite frightening! But in reality it is “Spring is coming!” See the Youtube Game of Thrones theme Two days of springlike weather with…