deck stains
Staining decks… I knew I had forgotten to do something the last few years. Looking back, I think we stained it back in 2002 and it was showing a lot…
Theres something about concrete
For the last several months, we have noticed some motion in one or our two telescope piers in the observatory. This is never a good thing. The piers were built…
Napanee Community Garden 2
We continue to show up as volunteers to the Napanee Community Garden located just south of town. There was a good turnout of over a dozen people last night and…
Plant Sale – Napanee
A reminder that there will be a plant sale tomorrow, Saturday May 15th, 2010 at the Napanee District Secondary School (NDSS) from 9am to 1pm. Please do not come early!…
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…