Grow a Row
We attended the kickoff to the 2010 Grow-A-Row campaign in the Kingston area last night. http://lovingspoonful.org/growarowinkingston%20/ Loving Spoonful is coordinating Kingston Grow a Row this year. Grow a row encourages…
Napanee Community Garden
There is a plan afoot in Napanee. That is to build a community garden with a variety of vegetables (and flowers to make it look nice) for use by the…
garlic in the spring
The garlic is coming along quite nicely this spring. It was planted last fall and covered up with the straw that you see here for the winter. We had to…
All You Can Eat Gardening Handbook
We went to a book launch in Tamworth on Tuesday March 30th for “All You Can Eat Gardening Handbook” by Cam Mather. He gave a good talk on the book…
Winter woes
Some months back, our wind speed sensor iced up. When I got up there atop a stepladder seated on snow, in an attempt to loosen it and get it spinning…
Peterborough Garden Show
We hooked up with a bus trip from Napanee to the Peterborough Garden Show last Saturday (April 10th) and all in all had a good time. THe show was held…
Spring Projects
While we are waiting for the ground to warm up and continue the gardening that we started in the last couple of weeks of really really warm weather (28 deg…
irrigation system
For years we have been working on building a reliable water system for the gardens. We have only one external non-water-softened tap and a very large property. Buying better quality…
Long weekends?
What is the purpose of long weekends again? Maybe to rest? Not this one… We spent friday and saturday cleaning and raking and moving and weeding.. and finally got the…
Preparing for Planting
Here it is the end of March and we are back in the -10 deep freeze at night. The last couple of weeks have been nice and warm and in…
king tut exhibit
You may have heard of the King Tut exhibit at the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) in Toronto. We went to see it last week, early on a Friday morning…