Greenup!
Sunday saw the Greenup! festival at the Kingston K-Rock centre. We barely found out about it a couple of days in advance but luckily were able to change plans in…
A Bench and a few good chairs
Friday April 17th had us drive down to Picton Ontario and the Crystal Palace to see “A Bench and a Few Good Chairs” County Garden Show. It was our first…
Garlic Galore
Garlic, planted in the fall of 2008 and covered with straw. All organic, originally from Beaver Pond Estates- Paul Pospisil – http://www.garlicfarm.ca/garlic-growing-pospisil.htm StarlightCascade Gardens: Korean Purple Musical -porcelain Cesnock Red…
Old Man Winter just won’t leave
The calendar say’s its spring, the daffodils coming up, the sounds of the frogs which showed up on April 3 say its spring,but the temperatures and the wet snow that…
Great Saturday
warm, sunny and a little bit of sunburn while re-roofing the greenhouse. The original roof was plain plywood and paint and that didn’t last too long before it started leaking.…
Gardening with Ed Lawrence
Last Thursday March 12th, we attended a lecture by Ed Lawrence, a master gardener with a regular call-in program on CBC Radio. Maybe 30-35 minutes of the time was spent…
Busy weekend
2009 We look so forward to weekends to escape the mind numbing stressful workplace… and then are so busy trying to do some of the items we want to do…
Disaster in the Greenhouse
Saturday December 20, a bright sunny day after a blizzard storm on Friday, and Kevin goes to check the greenhouse. I have had seeds in paper bags drying out, not…
Last few jobs of Gardening
It isn’t raining at the moment, so I thought I would move the Bull’s Blood beets (heritage) to garden 4A in the SW corner. I moved 5 beets, so we…
Clean up day in the gardens
Well, on Saturday after the dump run, and the early voting, we came back and cleaned up the gardens, and got them ready for the winter. Kevin cut the grass,…
Heritage Tomato Day, a taste of History
This post has been taken from an older blog program but I wanted to share the world of Heritage Tomatoes Today, I am making a batch of an old recipe…