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…
Prep the garlic
We have chosen Veg4C as the bed to plant the garlic in the next week or two. Yesterday we cleared out the area or about 8’x23′ or 200 ft^2 added…
New compost
This is the new composter. Smaller but tougher, easier to access and hopefully we will maintain it better than the last one. We salvaged three wood pallets that were otherwise…
same old compost
Yesterday the old composter came down/was dismantled/ went away. In it’s place was an extension of raised bed for Veg#1 garden. This was 14 minities stacked three high to give…
Natures Treasures
After work today while in the pool we were treated to a partial double rainbow in the east. It had clouds with wind coming down and corpuscular rays going up…
uggg. Not again!
They’re back! The dreaded tomato hookworm showed itself to us for the first time this season July 29th. We found 10 of them from about 50 plants and another 2…
Nearing the End of July
It’s been a very busy month but here are a few quick highlights of the last few weeks. * New deer fence: We built a 7′ high deer fence around…
10 new trees
We received our order of trees earlier this month and planted them in various locations. They were 10 Balsam firs. They don’t seem to require protection from deer and should…
napanee community garden
We goto the Napanee Community Garden once a week and every time we go back there is something new. This past June 2nd we came across 4 large water storage…
gardening in june
All kinds of news to talk about here. We put out our first 50 feet of sunflowers, protected this year with chicken wire. Last years attempts at building a sunflower…