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…
Thoughts from Starlight Cascade
Gardening and Astronomy Adventures from K&K outside Yarker Ontario Canada
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Saturday May 21st our dirt arrives. As mentioned in the past, we live on rock with a little bit of backfill and peat. Not conducive to gardening. So we build…
We were at the Kingston Airport on Friday May 20th, 2011 and noticed the Canadian Forces Snowbirds Demostration Team parked on the tarmac. Just after the local commuter Dash8 came…
And we still haven’t planted most of the garden yet. It has been wet, cold and cloudy. It looks like we may be 4 weeks later than last year already.…
So, we continued to get strange error messages from the radiojove skypipe installation and thought that it was network file related. We switched skypipe over to save data locally to…