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…
Gardening goes slow
For the last week now, we have been dismantling our old fencing around veg beds 4&5. This whole garden started small and every year got bigger and bigger, hence it…
The tomatos hit the ground
The heirloom tomatos were transplanted into the ground over the last few days and we are not done yet… still trying to find more garden space to put the remainder…
When the Ground met the Potatos
The potatos have finally hit the ground. Much later than we wanted, given the extremely high temperatures we have been having here of late (high 20’s C and into 30+…
Season of Dirt
There we go… our annual purchase of dirt to help create flower and veg beds on our rocky rocky land. This is 7yds of triple mix earth running at about…
GARDENING BEGINS!
This past weekend had our highest temperatures and best sun this year. What to do? Garden prep! 3 raised beds: weeds were cultivated out with a shallow pass of the…
Gardening Season starts Thursday
The free seed swap table at the 2016 March meeting of the Grassroots Growers meeting, held in Erinsville last month. We are still, this past weekend, experiencing night temperatures of…
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 was done up front, with…
L&A Hort met last night
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (meetings are the 3rd Wednesday of the month), at the Napanee Firehall Community Room, 7pm. It…
L&A Hort met last night
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (meetings are normally the 3rd Wednesday of the month), at the Napanee Firehall Community Room, 7pm.…
List of garlic planted in 2015
We’ve been asked by several people to post the master list of all of the various garlic types we plant. Below is the list of what went into the ground…
Latest frost data
We’ve been running a weather station here since 2003 and as a result, have local data for temperatures. This has been especially important as our vegetable and flower gardens really…
garlic 2015
The results of 4 hours of planting out 74 types of garlic, over 500 cloves in all, for the 2015/2016 crop. It was a wonderful day, cloudy to start, sunny…