{"id":8899,"date":"2020-02-20T15:32:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T19:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=8899"},"modified":"2020-02-20T16:21:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T20:21:16","slug":"la-hort-met-this-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2020\/02\/la-hort-met-this-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#038;A Hort met this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society met this week, on Wednesday, 2020 February 19th at our new location of St. Patricks Church, 179 West St, Napanee. Ample free parking across the street, meeting room in the new addition.<br \/>\n23 members and guests were in attendance.<br \/>\nThe invited guest speaker was Elaine Collins, President of the Gananoque Horticultural Society, who spoke on English Garden Experiences, a travelogue of 5 gardens.<br \/>\nThe meeting adjourned at 8:45pm<br \/>\nOur website is:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenontario.org\/view\/society-layout\/entry\/638\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/gardenontario.org\/view\/society-layout\/entry\/638\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FYI their (Gananoque) dues are Membership -$20 SINGLE $25 FAMILY<br \/>\nKingston Hort dues: $20\/person; $25\/family; Visitors $3.00<br \/>\nCollins Bay dues: $10\/person; $15 family<br \/>\nBrockville dues: $10 single  &#038; $15 family<br \/>\nBelleville dues: $15 or $25  family<br \/>\nBath dues: $10 single, $15 family<br \/>\nBancroft dues: single  &#8211; $15; family  &#8211; $20<br \/>\nAmeliasburgh dues: $12 per person<br \/>\nLand&#8217;o&#8217;Lakes dues: $20 per person<br \/>\nPrince Edward County dues: $15 single, $25 Family<br \/>\nRideau Lakes dues: $15<br \/>\nStirling dues: Adult $15, Youth $2<br \/>\nTrenton dues: $15 per person<br \/>\nTweed dues: $12 single and $16 family. Junior members: $1 per year (ages 8 to 17). Non-member fee per meeting is $3.<br \/>\nLastly, our dues here in L&#038;A: Fees are $10 single, $12 Family<\/p>\n<p>histogram single membership: 4@$10, 2@$12, 6@$15, 3@$20<br \/>\nhistogram family membership:  1@$12, 3@$15, 1@$16, 1@$20, 1@$24, 4@25, 3@$30, 1@$40<br \/>\nL&#038;A have the lowest fees in the district.<\/p>\n<p>One math challenge was brought up:<br \/>\nTomato seeds are more expensive than gold.  True or false?<br \/>\nThe internet says there are 8-10k seeds\/ounce.  I find that hard to believe but will go with it until I get  scale and measure some seeds myself.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s work in metric.. because.<br \/>\n28g=1oz so 8k seeds in 28g = 285 seeds\/g<br \/>\nRetail catalogue pricing of tomatos seeds tends to be 10 for $5 or $.50 each.  We will go with our own SCGO heirloom tomato seed pricing of 20 seeds for $2 or $0.10 each<\/p>\n<p>So Tomato seeds one gram 285 seeds @ $0.10 is $28.50\/g<br \/>\nTodays price of gold is $52.15\/g<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; tomato seeds are *NOT* as or more expensive than gold&#8230; BUT if you buy at retail prices of x5 over our benchmark then yes, they can be double the price of gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society met this week, on Wednesday, 2020 February 19th at our new location of St. Patricks Church, 179 West St, Napanee. Ample free parking across the street, meeting room in the new addition. 23 members and guests were in attendance. The invited guest speaker was Elaine Collins, President of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8899"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8914,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899\/revisions\/8914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}