Thoughts from Starlight Cascade
Gardening and Astronomy Adventures from K&K outside Yarker Ontario Canada
General gardening
**CANCELLED due to COVID9*** From https://www.kingstonist.com/news/seedy-saturday-offers-local-green-thumbs-an-early-start-to-their-gardening/ Gardeners, from novice to expert, take note: The Kingston Area Seed System Initiative (KASSI) will be holding their annual Seedy Saturday on Saturday, Mar.…
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society met this week, on Wednesday, 2020 February 19th at our new location of St. Patricks Church, 179 West St, Napanee. Ample free parking across…
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society met this week, on Wednesday, 2020 January 15th 7pm at the Morning Star Mission, 59 Water St., Napanee. 15 members and guests were in…
The 847 garlic cloves of 99 varieties in 142 rows are nicely to bed and sleeping under a coat of straw and snow. Hopefully all will survive and grow to…
Two days after work or prepping for garlic planting. about 3 1/2 hours in total to crack open about 150 bulbs to get 847 cloves for planting in 142 rows…
Its that time of year… time to plant the garlic cloves before the ground freezes. So this past weekend, we cleared out the VegBed4 of tomatos plants, stakes, basil, flowers…
Monday 2019 July 22 was the great garlic harvest of 2019 Day Two. We put in two hours of pulling the garlic out of the ground after loosening with a…
This is the last of the mini-garden tie constructed raised beds. This is all we have built since the early 2000’s but in the end analysis, they are not deep…
It was a great last few days to be gardening. We started transplanting Tomatos from the greenhouse stands outside (hardening them off the last few days) into the grounds of…
WHERE: Conservation Park, (south side Napanee River) Napanee Ontario WHEN: Saturday 2019 June 01 from 09:00am-2:00pm Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society is once again holding its annual fundraising plant sale,…
You know spring has sprung when you plant peas and clean out eavestroughs… well at least the planting peas part. Seeds from 2013, 2015 and 2017? or 2018? were planted…
Another big wind storm went through over the weekend… and this fairly new Lee Valley hoop house had it grommet tore out of the structure, picked up and tossed against…
It is only April the 5th, but yesterday we were out surveying the gardens and trying to ignore the piles of snow still here and there. Great plans are being…
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society met this week, on Wednesday, 2019 January 16th 7pm at our new location for the year: – Meeting, the Morning Star Mission, 59 Water…
The 2018 garlic planting is complete. Still no final numbers but on the order of 85 types and over 1000 cloves planted and covered. The bulbil project is also completed…