Thoughts from Starlight Cascade
Gardening and Astronomy Adventures from K&K outside Yarker Ontario Canada
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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…
What do you do on a 22 deg C Sunday? – till up a vegetable bed, pull out the grass roots, add 5 bags of sheep compost (1 bag/50ft^2) –…
From the Heirloom Seed Sanctuary: Learn how to save vegetable, flower and herb seeds from your own garden! Join us Tuesday May 21, 7-8:30 pm for Heirloom Plant Day where…
a line from the Game of Thrones… quite frightening! But in reality it is “Spring is coming!” See the Youtube Game of Thrones theme Two days of springlike weather with…
Last night (Wednesday April 17th, 2013) the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society held its regular monthly meeting to the biggest turnout of the year… 36 people! Our guest speaker helped…
Yay! Amazon has shipped another book on…. potatos? hmm. not exactly what we were expecting but we will take it.. waitaminute… here’s another email… Another book has shipped! Now this…
ok.. maybe not plants but at least seeds. The peppers went in on Saturday March 16th, 2013. Low that night was -13C but the partially insulated greenhouse with small electric…
Monday March 18, 2013 The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre regular meeting, 7pm, Ellis Hall Room 324, Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario. “You Can Almost Touch the Stars”…
The ground is still frozen, some snow left.. and it rained. Rained quite a lot. No place for the water to go but up and into the back yard. But…
A big construction /repair job had to be completed real soon now as it is time to start the pepper plants from seed. Lack of room and lack of southern…
March 20 Join certified arborist Eric Weese for a Tree Care Workshop on Wednesday, March 20 2013 from 2 to 4 pm at St. Albans Hall in Odessa, Ontario. Eric…
It seems to have been a long winter. Do the winters get longer every year strictly because of psychology? Last year this time we were just about out of firewood.…
We had a great time at the Canadian Organic Growers Eco Farm Day 2013 this past Saturday February 23rd, 2013 in Cornwall. The theme was Water Management and we were…
GARLIC: A DIFFERENT APPROACH Tuesday, March 19, 2013 7 p.m. Tamworth Public Libarary The GRG (Tamworth Grassroots Growers) invites you to an presentation by Canada’s Garlic Guru, Paul Pospisil, on…
Saving Seeds for Sustainability workshop series: Tuesday March 19, 2013 7-8:30 pm for Starting Seeds at Home. At the Heirloom Seed Sanctuary barn behind the Sisters of Providence Motherhouse, 1200…