Category: 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…

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…

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…