Verona Garlic Festival
We attended the annual Verona Garlic Festival at the Lions Club Field on Sunday September 2nd, 2018. I believe we have made it to every one since they started, but…
Gardening in September
Another strange month for weather and gardening. High temperatures of 31.7C and low temperatures of 2.2C, all in the last 18 days. Most of the tomatos were hit by blight…
midsummer pause
It’s the middle of the summer. The garlic harvest is complete and is hanging to dry. That lets us turn our attention to other projects. We have started building a…
Garlic Harvest Day 3
Day three of the SCGO 2018 Garlic Harvest. Another 90 minutes in the gardens, another 136 plants harvested. For the first time, the new washing table was put to use.…
Tomato progress
This is part of our heirloom tomato patch. Each plant is staked, velcroed for support and labelled with a laminated nametag. We top up our soil each year and this…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden over the years
Google Earth has a nice feature of making accessible historical satellite imagery. Below are the various images from the last few years of the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden. 2011…
Tomatos 2018 May
The tomatos have come out of the greenhouse and have been hardening off outside for the last three days. So far so good, no losses. This is the approximate list,…
SCGO Potatos in
On Friday 2018 May 25th, the SCGO Potato crop was finished planting. In addition to a few earlier types planets in VegBed6, the majority were put in VegBed4. The black…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden 2018
Another year and another location for the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden. Yes.. they moved down the field from the previous few years location. The new main bed is approx…
spring is here?
The last two weekends (2018 May 5-6 and 12-13) have been the first warm and best of the year… now if only the black flies would die off (3 weeks…
Dirt! Earth!
Wonder how much dirt it takes to fill up this raised bed? 1. calculate out cubage in feet: 4’x16’x16″ = 4’x16’x1.3′ = 83 ft^3 2. One yard of dirt is…
spring arrives and things run amuck
One of the “first” real days of spring yesterday (Mon April 30th 2018)… warm temperatures, no rain, wow. The greenhouse: outside the eavestrough was siliconed to help it stop leaking;…
Got Frost?
We’ve been running data logging weather stations since 2002 and once in a while get the urge to analyze some of that data. One of the results is attached below……
Garlic Bulbils planted
Another garlic related project… bulbils. They were planted last night, Monday 2017 Nov 06, in vegbed#7 and covered in straw. The plantings are complete! For more information about garlic please…
Garden signage for garlic
Three years ago, we printed off the names of the types of Garlic we had and had them laminated at Staples. They were cut apart and stapled onto 1×2 stakes.…