Planning for spring… irrigation
We are looking at adding in better irrigation systems in our various raised garden/veg beds. In the past we have tried a few, including lee valley system tubing and sprayers,…
Bath Garden Club 2013
The Bath (Ontario) Garden Club has recently become affiliated with the Ontario Horticultural Society. They are still working on their website, so in the meantime: Next Meeting Date: February 18,…
Reminder – Canada Blooms! (2013)
Canada Blooms 2013 is coming and it is time to start thinking about whether or not to make the trek into the dreaded Toronto Traffic. Some years ago we took…
L&A Hort AGM
The original post was lost in the system crash of a week or two ago… The data backups went back to only January 1st so we lost a few blog…
Welcome to February
This is our greenhouse. Notice how snow covered it is. THere hasn’t been enough sunlight coming into the south facing front wall to heat up the inside to melt the…
HSGeo
Our newly renamed Heirloom Seed Growers (of Eastern Ontario) aka HSGeo met this past weekend in more of a social setting and with an eye to wrapping up the past…
L&A Horticultural Society last meeting of 2012
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society last meeting of the year was Wednesday December 5th, 2012. As luck would have it, it was a potluck dinner. We never know how…
Napanee’s Garden Club meets early, Wednesday Dec 05
The next meeting of the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society is Wednesday evening December 6th, 2012. This is a special year end pot luck social event rather than a regular…
summer growing days revisited
We looked at the weather station data again and decided to go with the heavy frost (-3c) instead of the light frost (-1C) definition for a few reasons. 1) In…
Napanee’s Garden Club meets tonight
Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society meeting The next meeting of the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society is Wednesday evening November 21st, 2012. We meet at 7pm at the Napanee Firehall…
Tamworth Grass Roots Growers meeting tonight
Tamworth is 22km north of Camden East on County Road #4, about 20-25 minutes north. http://te-grassrootsgrowers.weebly.com/events.html Weighing the Costs Building a Case for a Local Food Economy Tuesday November 20,…
Summer growing season summary
Data mining our weather station data shows the number of growing days in each summer here at the StarlightCascade Gardens over the years. We use the last day of -1…
Napanee Food Bank Garden 2012 Summary
Napanee Food Bank Garden 2012 Summary We kept a logbook of harvest this year and today I went through and transcribed it into a 2012foodbankgardensummary spreadsheet(11kb .pdf). Basically the 2012…
root veg come out
It’s the start of a stretch of cold overnights, so the root vegetables came out of the garden beds yesterday (Sunday November 4th,2012). Carrots, beets, parsnip and one more… whose…
Heirloom Seed Sanctuary Workshop
Sisters of Providence Heirloom Seed Sanctuary Workshop Saturday Oct. 20, 2012 2-3:30 pm – Sitting with seeds contemplative workshop At this time of year and through the winter, seed savers…