GrassRootsGrowers Meeting 2012 Oct 16
From the Tamworth (Ontario) Grass Roots Growers: THE LAWN DILEMMA Tamworth Library Tuesday, October 16, 2012 7 p.m. Award-winning gardener Paul Fritz will share his innovative ideas on alternatives to…
Garlic bed prep
Looking back at yesterday’s blog post about more garden prep, I thought the work described would not be that hard. hmmmph! Memory fails as do muscles. An hour of hard…
Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society meeting
The first of the fall season meeting of the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society was Wednesday evening September 19th, 2012. We met at 7pm at the Napanee Firehall Training Room…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden Update
Thursday August 23, 2012 Napanee Community Food Bank Garden Update It’s been dry again and the garden soil grounds are cracked again. Watering what is left of our rows took…
July 18th L&AHortSoc Garden Tour
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society went on a members garden tour on Wednesday July 18th, 2012. Lots of nice flowers and gardens and everyone had a great time enjoying…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden Update
Looks like the lat time I wrote about the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden was back about the July 19th, 2012 visit. We skipped the next week as it was…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden Updated
It is well into drought now.. no real rain for weeks. We stopped in to do some weeding and watering at the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden on Thursday July…
Manduca quinquemaculata
From wikipedia.org The five-spotted hawkmoth (Manduca quinquemaculata) is a brown and gray hawk moth of the Sphingidae family. The caterpillar, often referred to as the tomato hornworm, can be a…
L&AHortSoc and the Napanee Library
Week two at the Napanee Library saw us going around the entire building and collecting a lot of thistles/weeds. That combined with the efforts of other L&A Hort members that…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden work
We dropped by the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden on Thursday July 12th to do some work, mainly weeding and watering. It has been hot and dry with not a…
Garlic Harvest has started
It was a great weekend with highs of 29 and 27 but still fairly dry. We had 2mm of rain early Saturday morning… not even enough to get the ground…
L&AHortSoc and the Napanee Library
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society has taken on the community service job of tending to the gardens at the Napanee Library. We visited the site on Sunday July 1st,…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden work
We dropped by the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden on Thursday June 28th, 2012 and again on Thursday July 5th to do some work, mainly weeding and watering. It has…
5 weeks and done!
The many flower beds are done. After being mostly left alone for a few years, we tackled them all, pulling grass and weeds and covering in mulch for 5 weeks.…
Another day at the NapFBGarden
Yesterday was Thursday June 21st, 2012 and again we visited the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden and spent some time weeding and watering the four rows that we look after.…