Napanee Community Garden 2025
This was the 16th year (2010-2025) of the Napanee Community Garden for the Local Food Bank. This is a small group of volunteers who plan, prepare, plant, weed, water, and…
tomato harvest 2025 was pretty darn good
Just a *small* representation of the huge harvest from our 32 heirloom tomato plants this year. Think in your mind, *triple* at least this amount.
Its BLT season!
The first Bacon Lettuce Tomato Sandwich of the season… and the first of about 20… take advantage of it while you can! This was a Kellogg’s Breakfast heirloom tomato sliced…
Garlic Harvest 2025
The 2025 Garlic Harvest has been complete. Records were kept but not yet transcribed as to the total amount. They are now hanging up to dry in a cool, dark,…
The Newer Greenhouse
The Greenhouse is Dead! Long live the Greenhouse! Or words to that affect. So.. the old greenhouse was demolished over the course of 3 weeks, cut up and disposed of…
Old greenhouse falling down, need new greenhouse
Our old (2005 September) greenhouse is falling down. After investigation most of the south side joists were totally rotted out. We did a critical evaluation and came to the decision…
L&A Horticultural Society Annual Plant Sale
On Saturday May 10th, The Napanee Garden Club aka the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society held its annual fundraising plant sale. This year again it was held at the Historic…
soil too basic
After over 20 years of gardening onsite, we have finally gotten the soil tested. To our surprise (all right.. a little surprised), our soil has a pH over 7.4 to…
Drip Irrigation for the Veg Garden
Drip Irrigation at Starlight Cascade Gardens and Observatories Background Decades ago we started out first raised bed at our new home. We watered by hand from a hose from our…
Napanee Community Garden 2024
This was the 15th year (2010-2024) of the Napanee Community Garden for the Local Food Bank. This is a small group of volunteers who plan, prepare, plant, weed, water, and…
Frozen soil 20250320
Today we went out on the first day of Spring, the Equinox, and measured each vegbed to see how much of the soil had thawed. Vegbed1, raised, garden ties 2″…
Prepping for gardening in January
We are learning of many new things online, and especially from Country View Acres on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@CountryViewAcres In particular… more and better grow lights for starting seeds. So we picked…
Garlic Planting 20241019
The 2024 Garlic crop has been planted. Kim did about 8 hours of prep with cracking the bulbs into cloves, planning, marking bags, getting the spreadsheet uptodate and more. I…
Garden Prep 20241017
Another big day of garden prep. This time it was to move 5 wagonloads (totalling just over 1 cubic yard) of compost from the front of the property to the…
Garden Prep 20241016
This is a 90 second timelapse (x10) video of prepping the garden for fall planting of garlic. This is VegBed #2 and it is 4’x24′ or approx 96 ft^2. The…