BBQ
Last Wednesday August 21st, 2013 we hosted the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society to a BBQ at our home. 22 people were there, and that was a good turnout. Not…
Perth Garlic Festival
We normally visit the Verona Garlix Festival, held the last weekend in August, but this year we will not be able to make it. So instead we travelled 90 minutes…
Garlic harvest time
Its that time boys and girls! Harvest time! A lot of the garlic was ready (some not) for picking so we spent most of Saturday morning and some parts of…
garlic time
It’s that time of year again… garlic harvest time! We’ve already pulled some of the earlier varieties and hung them up to dry in the leaky-roof greenhouse leanto. That’s got…
Spring plans
Spring is almost here… another 20 hours give or take… time to start planning! April – add another coarse of 3.5″x5″x8′ minigarden ties to the raised beds #1, 2, 3,…
Tamworth Grass Roots Growers event
GARLIC: A DIFFERENT APPROACH Tuesday, March 19, 2013 7 p.m. Tamworth Public Libarary The GRG (Tamworth Grassroots Growers) invites you to an presentation by Canada’s Garlic Guru, Paul Pospisil, on…
Leek moth notes
Leek moth has been a pest for a few years now and we have been looking at ways to reduce their impact on our leeks, onion and garlic crops. We…
2012 garlic planting complete..
2012 october 20 The weather is getting colder and we are expecting a run of below zero C temps in about a week, so we planted our garlic crop over…
Garlic bed prep
Looking back at yesterday’s blog post about more garden prep, I thought the work described would not be that hard. hmmmph! Memory fails as do muscles. An hour of hard…
More garden prep
Most gardeners do not have to worry about the fall… except if you happen to grow 45+ types of garlic and like to plant in the fall. So yesterday we…
Verona Garlic Festival
The 6th? annual Verona Garlic Festival was held on Saturday September 1st, 2012. It’s on site with the Verona Farmers Market and seems to be picking up activity each year.…
How we harvest garlic
Garlic harvest came early this year and Kim finished it off Saturday morning. When is garlic reday to harvest? In the Kingston Ontario region, normally around the end of July.…
Garlic Harvest has started
It was a great weekend with highs of 29 and 27 but still fairly dry. We had 2mm of rain early Saturday morning… not even enough to get the ground…
The Peppers are in
Today finished the planting of all the items started in the greenhouse. The peppers have been planted, the extra tomatoes from the plant sale, and the Batchelor buttons and marigolds…
Garlic, nematodes and fallow beds
We grow garlic.. lots of it. 40+ varieties in 2011. We attend garlic workshops and seminars. The last couple of years we have been warned about an approaching problem ……