Electricity Costs in Ontario Canada
Looking at our summer rates of electricity her in Ontario Canada provided by the Hydro One Network (as it is a big political issue of late): cents/kwh Low 8.7 Mid…
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…
Saturn 20160826
After drying out the imaging laptop for a week, it was fired up for a quick imaging run of Saturn on Friday evening, after returning from a field trip to…
short book review
Exploring Mars by Robert S. Richardson It doesn’t take long getting into the book that yes indeed, it was published in 1954. No landing on Mars, travel to Mars, or…
Perseid 2016 peak
The total count for the night was 58, of which one of them looks suspiciously like an alien spacecraft veering off course in just over 6 hours. The first recorded…
Perseid runup 2016
It has been surprisingly clear in the runup to the 2016 Perseid meteor shower. Over the last few days we have had captured on our allsky2 system: Tue 20160802: 14…
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…
Mars 20160718
Was imaging the moon last night just after sunset and managed to start two and only two runs of Mars when the bus stopped and all the mosquitos got out…
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…