Garden Prep
(Beds 1,2,3 from a previous year 🙂 Saturday saw the prep of Garden Beds 2 and 6. We are using 15kg bags of composted sheep manure with a rating of…
spring?
It was a good long weekend… albeit too short. We still have snow on the ground, the ground is still frozen, the greenhouse roof has a few holes in it,…
L&AHortSoc met last night
The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (Wednesday 2015 March 18). There was a good turnout of 29 people in spite of another…
Napanee Garden Club met
The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (Wednesday 2014 December 03). There was a good turnout of 33 people in spite of the…
Napanee Garden Club met
The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (Wednesday 2014 Nov 19). There was a good turnout of 18 people in spite of the…
Garlic 2014
Below is the list of names of the different types of garlic we planted this year. We are a small scale operation, planting just enough to continue planting the type…
Garlic is in the ground.
The 2014 fall garlic planting was completed on Saturday 2014 November 01, taking 11 person-hours. This is the newest vegetable bed, Veg4west. It is 6′ wide by 23′ long and…
L&A Hort Society met last night
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (Napanee’s Garden Club), met on Wednesday 2014 September 17th at the Napanee Fire Hall community/training room. The topic of the night was stories from…
Compost Dangers
This is how far we got into harvesting compost from our compost bin last week. It is made up of 3 pallets with chicken wire inside. We pulled about 1…
Great tourism weekend
This past weekend was great for weather, with warm to hot temperatures and a good time to play tourist in the local area. Upper Canada Village: (wikipedia) endeavours to depict…
pollinators
Pollinating insects have been in the news a lot lately, which is both good and bad news. Good news for the awareness, bad news for the reasons why, that of…
In support of butterflies
This is an image of our first butterfly and pollinator garden, located on the north side of the house. It contains a lot of perennial plants that are known to…
A little early this year – hornworm
This tomato hornworm made an appearance in our swimming pool yesterday. Come to think of it, we had an early worm appear last year as well. From the evidence (hexagonal…
2014 Garlic Field Day
A visit to the Beaver Ponds Estate 2014 Garlic Field Day. This was a Sunday 4 or 5 hour meeting of Garlic Growers to learn and share information about the…