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 guest speaker led off, Mick from…
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Gardening and Astronomy Adventures from K&K outside Yarker Ontario Canada
General gardening
The Napanee Garden Club (aka The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society) met last night at the Napanee Fire Hall Community Room at 7pm. The guest speaker led off, Mick from…
That time of year again… -3C and falling this morning. This is cold enough to kill off any garden plant still standing above ground. We harvest peppers the day before.…
The potato patch in Veg4 was dug up this past weekend. It took us about 2 hours to dig up 6 hills each of 10? types. Will have to check…
The first step in Garden Prep is to get your (*&#^$@#% machinery working again! Our tiller has worked great for 2 or 3 years now… will tear through all kinds…
The 2016/2017 crop of garlic has been cleaned, weighed, measured and stored away in the cold room. Time to start thinking about the 2017/2018 crop. A summary of when we…
Our first photo of a monarch butterfly near a milkweed that is not part of our butterfly gardens. go figure! We have two butterfly gardens on the property to encourage…
We stopped by the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden last Sunday, to see how they were doing. From these image, things are great! Nice and tidy, neat, well weeded and…
This is our bean bed, VegBed#2 from one week ago. The beans are doing great and loving it. The bed itself has some issues over winter, with the long sides…
When we first moved to the country many years ago, we had bats. In the twilight and evening hours we could see and hear bats flying around and eating a…
Here we are in the middle of May already. The Black Flies, here for two weeks now, continue to inhibit all outdoor activity. Event with bug hats, jackets and gloves,…
The Peas went into the ground this past weekend, into Veg9, a 15’x4′ raised bed that hosted tomatos last year. Kim double planted over last year, so we should get…
It is time to start seeds.. even with frozen ground and a foot of snow. This is our repurposed incubator seed chamber… an old box built to hold lead acid…
It is the time of year to consider the frozen veg gardens and what needs to be done before the upcoming spring melts and turns them into mush for a…
Despite one of the driest summers on record… a level 3 drought condition was decalred by the local Conservation Authority, on site irrigation helped to produce one of the better…
Here is our master list of garlic types planted on Fri & Sat 2016 November 4&5 The missing numbers are ones that we have decided not to plant this year..…