Winemakers
Today we are winemakers! Or rather will be in 5 or 6 years. We ordered 4 grape wines each of: Concord and St. Pepin. This will be an interesting few…
Eco Farm Day 2010
We came across this conference coming up in late February with more information from their website: http://www.cog.ca/ottawa/ecofarmday/ENhome.html “Keeping it Local and Sustainable” Welcome to Eco Farm Day – eastern Ontario’s…
seeds & christmas
Not only are the christmas decorations and sales items still available in Canadian Tire (Napanee), but the see racks have been set up as well! I was a little taken…
Garlic goes in
Monday October 12th, 2009 and the garlic goes in the ground. We prepped the raised beds #2 (3’x28’x12″=84ft^2) and #3 (4’x16’x12″=64ft^2) by putting in 7 bags of sheep manure a…
A Visit to Wolfe Island
We haven’t been over to Wolfe Island in months, but finally had the opportunity earlier this week. Our primary reason was to go and visit some gardens.. some very nice…
Gardening at Starlight Cascade Gardens
Gardening at Starlight Cascade Gardens is for food, seed saving, therapy, and getting to know the land and the vegetables and fruits you grow. We mainly grow environmentely, and organic…
Mmmm day lillies
Mmmm. day lilly. We went and walked around the grounds this evening and took a lot of pictures. This batch of flowers really stood out nicely.
garlic scape harvest
Kim started harvesting garlic scapes a couple of days ago and so far they are a big hit with some of the folks at work who tried them out with…
June is still cool
Kim reports no scapes appearing on the garlic… it has been cooler than normal and I think we might finally be free of the frost. We did end up adding…
cool growing
In the last two weeks since we transplanted from the greenhouse into the garden, it has been cool, cold, windy, frosty and even a little hail. Many plants (tomato) have…
raccoon menace
Two weeks ago all of the baby robins and eggs disappeared from the nest overlooking the back deck. A week ago we found a young raccoon up our back tree…
need a holiday from the holiday
Another (2009) spring week off from work to catch up on the yardwork. 8 of 9 days we worked to the point of insanity prepping the yard, the gardens, the…