Aurora 2012 Nov 13/14
Aurora 2012 Nov 13/14 There was another aurora event overnight that was not too bad. Kim went out and got a few images on the Canon camera but those have…
Summer growing season summary
Data mining our weather station data shows the number of growing days in each summer here at the StarlightCascade Gardens over the years. We use the last day of -1…
Napanee Food Bank Garden 2012 Summary
Napanee Food Bank Garden 2012 Summary We kept a logbook of harvest this year and today I went through and transcribed it into a 2012foodbankgardensummary spreadsheet(11kb .pdf). Basically the 2012…
root veg come out
It’s the start of a stretch of cold overnights, so the root vegetables came out of the garden beds yesterday (Sunday November 4th,2012). Carrots, beets, parsnip and one more… whose…
Not a problem
Here it is Tuesday morning October 30th, 2012 and we have survived without issue. All around us there are power outages, sometimes affecting thousands, but ours stayed up all night.…
Hurricane Sandy prep
As of early this morning (Monday Oct 29, 2012) Hurricane Sandy was predicted to pass right over our house, but now the latest prediction shown (Monday afternoon) has it passing…
Aurora Image Archive now online
2012 october 25 After asking ourselves many times… when was that great aurora a few years ago? and having to search through tens of thousands of images… we decided to…
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…
meteor 2012 Oct 18 01:03:14 EDT
A nice meteor showed up this morning… 2012 October 18 in the 90 seconds preceeding 01:03:14 EDT (-4 UTC) or 2012Oct18 05:03:14 UT as seen by allsky1
Fireball 2012Oct05 05:26:28 UT
6mb .avi video Another fireball was recorded at the Starlight Cascade Observatory on the morning of Friday October 5th, 2012. In Universal Time (UT) the event started at 05:26:28 and…
Heirloom Seed Sanctuary Workshop
Sisters of Providence Heirloom Seed Sanctuary Workshop Saturday Oct. 20, 2012 2-3:30 pm – Sitting with seeds contemplative workshop At this time of year and through the winter, seed savers…
GrassRootsGrowers Meeting 2012 Oct 16
From the Tamworth (Ontario) Grass Roots Growers: THE LAWN DILEMMA Tamworth Library Tuesday, October 16, 2012 7 p.m. Award-winning gardener Paul Fritz will share his innovative ideas on alternatives to…
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…