Grow a Row
We attended the kickoff to the 2010 Grow-A-Row campaign in the Kingston area last night. http://lovingspoonful.org/growarowinkingston%20/ Loving Spoonful is coordinating Kingston Grow a Row this year. Grow a row encourages…
Napanee Community Garden
There is a plan afoot in Napanee. That is to build a community garden with a variety of vegetables (and flowers to make it look nice) for use by the…
garlic in the spring
The garlic is coming along quite nicely this spring. It was planted last fall and covered up with the straw that you see here for the winter. We had to…
All You Can Eat Gardening Handbook
We went to a book launch in Tamworth on Tuesday March 30th for “All You Can Eat Gardening Handbook” by Cam Mather. He gave a good talk on the book…
Peterborough Garden Show
We hooked up with a bus trip from Napanee to the Peterborough Garden Show last Saturday (April 10th) and all in all had a good time. THe show was held…
irrigation system
For years we have been working on building a reliable water system for the gardens. We have only one external non-water-softened tap and a very large property. Buying better quality…
Long weekends?
What is the purpose of long weekends again? Maybe to rest? Not this one… We spent friday and saturday cleaning and raking and moving and weeding.. and finally got the…
Preparing for Planting
Here it is the end of March and we are back in the -10 deep freeze at night. The last couple of weeks have been nice and warm and in…
Canada Blooms
We went to the Canada Blooms show in Toronto on Thursday and quickly remembered why we had not been there in some years. First off, Toronto is insanely busy and…
Seedy Saturday in Kingston Ontario
Kingston, ON Kingston Public Library Central Branch Saturday March 13, 2010 10-3 Kingston’s 3rd Annual Seedy Saturday invites you to a seed networking and education event for both novice and…
kingston gardening expo
Saturday March 6th was the annual Kingston Gardening Expo, held at the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour. Best to go earlier in the morning when the crowds were not as intense. There…
CSA CSA CSA
We have joined our first CSA … Community Shared Agriculture. (as opposed to the Canadian Space Agency). For those not aware of this, it is a system where consumers (us)…