Fall 2016 Garlic planted
It took us two days, 1 hour after work on Friday and almost 2 hours Saturday morning, to get the approx 500 bulbs of garlic planted in Veg bed #5.…
more gardening garage work
Prior to the garlic prep mentioned below, we had to clean and store the potato crop, to make room to work on the garlic. This is a sample of one…
garlic planting prep
Time seems to be in shorter supply every trip round the sun. This year we seem to have fallen behind so much so that it may be another couple of…
Napanee Garden Club met
The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (Wednesday 2016 October 19th). There was a good turnout of 21 people for the second regular…
Fall has come
Fall has come. The frost-killed (-3.4 for 30 minutes and 6 hours below 0C on Sunday September 25, 2016) heirloom tomato plants got pulled out of Veg Bed #9 yesterday…
Napanee Garden Club met
The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (Wednesday 2016 September 21). There was a good turnout of 19 people for the first regular…
Garden Status 2016 Sept 03
The worst of the heat and drought have almost given rise to cooler wetter conditions, but not quite yet. This is raised bed #1, containing heirloom tomatos. They are still…
The Garlic of August
approximately 500 bulbs of 75 types of garlic were harvested by 2016 July 21. They were washed, sometimes a layer was peeled off, and they were hung up to dry…
The Tomatos of August
Tomatos are having a very tough time this summer in SouthEastern Ontario. Looks like we have had 13mm of rain in the last 30 days. These are two plants of…
The Peppers of August
If we thought the tomatos were not doing so well, the peppers are even worse. We lost a lot of them after transplant and had to purchase some grown plants…
Garlic Harvest complete
It took 3 sessions (days) of 2 hours each to dig up, clean up, rinse off, identify, hang up and tag approx 75 types of garlic with about 500 plants…
Potato patch
This is our small potato patch, only 10 types with five or six plants of each type. In contrast to the earlier post about Colorado potato bugs on June 29th,…
Garlic Harvest 2016
We started the garlic harvest of 2016 on Sunday July 17th. At least three of the bottom leaves have dried out and the weather is a little unstable and wet…
Colorado potato beetle season!
It is that time of year already! Colorado Potato beetle egg time. We discovered at least 4 nests of these on potato plants growing unexpectedly in our garlic and tomato…
Eastern Ontario Garlic Field Day 2016
We went on a road trip Sunday 2016 June 26th, to the Eastern Ontario Garlic Field Day, hosted by and at Beaver Pond Estates near Maberly. It was a good…