Kingston Gardening Festival
We stopped in at the Kingston Gardening Festival Friday after work. It was at the same location as last year, the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour. Nice to see the first garden…
COG Eco Farm Day 2011
The Canadian Organic Growers held their Annual Eco Farm Day in Cornwall this past weekend and we attended with a few others from the Kingston and Roblin areas. It was…
The Bath Garden Club
We were able to attend a meeting of the Bath Garden Club Monday Feb 21st as it was a holiday and they always meeting in the afternoon 🙁 What struck…
Bath Garden Club
We were able to pop into our very first meeting of the Bath Garden Club on Monday Feb 21st (2011) as it was a holiday for us. Having a 2pm…
Seed Inventory
We collect and grow out heritage/heirloom seeds. We believe that commercial big retail fruits and veg are optimized/chosen for transport and “prettiness” and not for taste, freshness or health. So…
Feb L&A Hort
The February meeting of the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society was last night, Wednesday Feb 16th. Too bad it conflicted with the new season of Survivor and the finale of…
Kingston city greenhouse open house
2011 Get a breath of Spring air at Greenhouse Open House Kingstonians anxious for spring can get a taste of it at the City’s greenhouse which will open on a…
catching up
It’s been busy the last couple of weeks: * Snow and more snow. The Great Groundhog Day Blizzard hit on Feb 2nd and left us with a pile. * WordPress…
Jan L&A Hort
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society, affectionately known as L&A Hort, held a meeting last night in Napanee. After the business portion of the meeting, we were treated to a…
Growing Days
A followup of non frost growing days using the “light frost dates” , ie actual growing days where the temperature is always above freezing: 2003 = 172 days = 24…
Frost days
At a recent meeting of our local Seed Savers group, we talked a little about the various climate types across the area. In an effort to visualize this, ewe have…
national farmers union
The National Farmers Union Local 316 held their annual general meeting Thursday evening in Sydenham. Not being full fledged farmers, we hold associate member status. It helps us keep in…
L&A Hort holiday potluck dinner
The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society held their annual pot luck dinner for December and a good time was had by all. Especially for all of those who snagged door…
warm fall continues
Even though we’ve had more than a dozen if not two dozen nights of frost, it continues to be warm in the area. Weather is nothing if not variable. The…
Garlic goes in 2010
Saturday October 23rd, the garlic goes into the ground. We picked bed Veg4C this year, rotating away from Veg2&3. About a month ago a wheelbarrow of compost and a bag…