L&A Hort Met This Week
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…
Garlic to bed
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…
Garlic Prep
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…
Garlic planting prep 2019
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…
Garlic Harvest 2019 – Day Two
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…
Summer gardens
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…
The Tomatos are In!
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…
L&A Horticultural Society Annual Plant Sale
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,…
Spring has sprung
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…
Gardening in April
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…
L&A Hort met this week
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 garlic is finished!
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…
Frost summary 2003-2018 At SCGO
StarlightCascade Gardens & Observatory Weather Station Yarker Ontario Canada LIGHT FROST (-1C) HEAVY FROST (-3C) Year #days #weeks Year #days #weeks 2003 Apr30-Oct23 176 25 2003 Apr24-Nov08 198 28 2004…
L&A Hort met last night
The Napanee Garden Club (aka The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society) met last night at the Napanee Fire Hall Community Room at 7pm. The business session started with minutes from…