Greenhouse reno
Last tuesday we plunged ahead with a project that has been on the books for a few years now… insulating the north wall of the greenhouse. We use the greenhouse…
radio jove results
Whenever you set up a new data collection system, it is necessary to verify or calibrate it against some other standard to make sure that it is actually working. Yesterday…
hard working cat
While we work and slave away in the gardens for hours each day and more on weekends, to earn our food, this is how the other occupants of our home…
Napanee Food Bank Garden Week2
This was our 2nd week since we were assigned rows 6,7 and 26 to look after in the Napanee Food Bank Garden. This is the Garden’s 2nd year and all…
Napanee Food Bank Garden Week 1
This was our 1st week in 2011 since we were assigned rows 6,7 and 26 to look after in the Napanee Food Bank Garden. This is the Garden’s 2nd year…
garlic harvest is nearing
Another 4 weeks or so to the garlic harvest. Here is an image from this morning showing the 37 types of garlic and maybe 350-400 plants in total. The tomatos…
rain barrels
We haven’t been using our rain barrel system as much as we’d like with the soaker hoses, in part because of the low water pressure they would have even when…
VLF SRT repairs
The 40khz Solar Radio Telescope has been showing a flatline of data for the last few days. Last night we spotted the problem… the main antenna lead was hanging lose.…
What can you do in two weeks?
Day One: Prep, weed, add soil and plant potatos in Veg#1 (3’x56′ bed) Prep, weed, add soil and plant potatos in Veg#2 (3’x28′ bed) Prep, weed, add soil and plant…
done as done can be
After almost two weeks of work, we are as done as done can be. All of the vegetable beds were built, soiled, cleaned, cleared, setup and planted. All of the…
And more grass
These are before and after pictures of our vegetable bed #5. The soil we got last year to build this was particularly bad and full of weed and grass seed.…
Grass gets into everything
More and more the grass is infiltrating everywhere. So this year we started to expand all of the mulch rings around the trees, eliminating more grass that will not need…
More raised beds
These are raised Veg Beds #7 and #8, each approx 8’x3′ or 24ft^2. Two of the three new beds we put up this year due to too many more types…
Parking Issues
2011 Sometime you get the parking space and sometimes the parking space gets you. This is in “downtown” Yarker on Sunday afternoon where this vehicle ended up stuck on the…
Do you know what kind of tree this is?
Here are closeups of the flowers, leaves and trunk From the five petal white flower a tentative ID is Gray Dogwood. We’ll need some better images of the leaf though.