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…
The Lunar X
We got home late but not too late to still observe and image the Lunar X feature on the moon. The event peaked around 20:00 local but was still visible…
L&A HortSoc meeting
Last night (Wednesday April 17th, 2013) the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society held its regular monthly meeting to the biggest turnout of the year… 36 people! Our guest speaker helped…
accurate time
Astronomers watch the mostly static skies. Once in awhile, something moves. Sometimes things move fast.. very fast. At those times it is very useful to know what time it is.…
Great.. Big… Sea!
Great Big Sea.. Newfoundland’s premier band.. Eastern Canada’s premiere band… Canada’s premier band? Could be. We certainly think so. (Well at least in the top three or four 🙂 They…