Name that(those) tree(s)
Can you name the type of tree this is? We think it is a type of maple… but which type? Here is another tree (#2): I think I have already…
GrassRoots Growers Plant Sale
GrassRoots Growers Plant Sale Saturday May 25th, 2013 10 am – 1 pm Lions’ Beaver Lake Park, Erinsville Spring has officially arrived and it’s time for the annual GrassRoots Growers…
Bean Collection growout
On Sunday May 19th, 2013, a novel experiment took shape on a Heirloom & Seed Growers of Eastern Ontario members property. The entire heirloom bean collection was planted to be…
L&A HortSoc Plant Sale
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (based out on Napanee Ontario), held its annual fundraising plant sale on Saturday May 18th, 2013. It ran from 9am to 3pm at the…
Good weather? Gardening!
The images are still in the camera but Thursday May 16th 2013 was a nice day. So nice that the black flies have come back with a vengeance after a…
weather weather
Monday May 13th, 2013 saw two bouts of small hail throughout the day, a low of 1 deg C in the morning and -3.6 C Monday night/Tuesday morning. The hard…
L&A HortSoc Plant Sale Saturday May 18th
The Lennox And Addington Horticultural Society will be hold its Annual Fundraising Plant Sale on Saturday 2013 May 18th at the Napanee Market, just behind Napanee Town Hall. Start Time…
Tamworth Seedling Sale 2013 May 25
The GrassRootGrowers of Tamworth and Erinsville are having a spring seedling sale on Saturday 2013 May 25 from 10-2 at the Beaver Lake Lions Park, Highway #41 in Erinsville. For…
starman alpine garden
The Starman Alpine Garden. A nice little flower bed with alpine plants that requires no maintenance other than weeding and pulling grass once in awhile. It is located under a…
Raised bed topups
The raised veg beds were themselves raised another garden tie level in the last few weeks. This is a 3″x5″ nominal piece of wood, raising the wall height by 3″.…
Black Flies
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fly A black fly (sometimes called a buffalo gnat, turkey gnat, or white socks) is any member of the family Simuliidae of the Culicomorpha infraorder. They are related to…
Raised Bed Upgrades
We have many raised beds, all built up and modified each and every year since 2002. In 2012 they were roughly 3 courses of garden ties, maybe 9″ deep. That…
Achieving Weather Resilient Gardens
http://www.cityofkingston.ca/residents/city-calendar-events?p_p_auth=pxizK5aK&p_p_id=8&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_col_id=column-3&p_p_col_pos=1&p_p_col_count=2&_8_struts_action=%2Fcalendar%2Fview_event&_8_eventId=551645&_8_redirect=%2F Complicated link above, no? Thank the City of Kingston’s new website. In any event: Communities in Bloom Kingston presents Achieving Weather Resilient Gardens Date: 5/8/13 In human terms this…