L&A Horticultural Society Annual Plant Sale
On Saturday May 10th, The Napanee Garden Club aka the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society held its annual fundraising plant sale. This year again it was held at the Historic…
2022 Seed Saving -Tomatoes
The seeds were all dried and put in their packets today. Nine types of tomato seeds were saved out this year. Anna Russian (mid-large Red), Tiny Tim (red currant) ,…
drip irrigation is pretty awesome
This is our drip irrigation system that we bought last year (kit form), just laid out a week ago when we transplanted the heirloom tomatos. This year the plants are…
The Tomatos are In!
It was a great last few days to be gardening. We started transplanting Tomatos from the greenhouse stands outside (hardening them off the last few days) into the grounds of…
Tomato progress
This is part of our heirloom tomato patch. Each plant is staked, velcroed for support and labelled with a laminated nametag. We top up our soil each year and this…
Tomatos 2018 May
The tomatos have come out of the greenhouse and have been hardening off outside for the last three days. So far so good, no losses. This is the approximate list,…
Tomatos
This is one of three veg beds that we have tomatos planted in this year. So far, in the last three days alone, we have lost 13 of the transplanted…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
Vickis Veggies Tomato Tasting Festival
Vickis’ Veggies Tomato Tasting Festival was also on the weekend and we went down to lower Prince Edward County on Sunday Sept 6th early in the morning (another hot and…
Tomato wrangling
The Heirloom tomatos came out of the greenhouse, spent a few days outdoors and then went into the ground on May 30/31. Stakes and or cages went on them right…
Heirloom Tomatoes 2015
Its time to put the 2015 tomatos into the ground.. and so they did this past weekend (2015 May 30/31). We have moved past the last killing frost of the…