Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
A week ago I featured radishes in my 6 on Saturday post; watermelon radishes grow quickly, love the cool late summer/early autumn weather, they’re huge and when sliced resemble watermelons with their green thick outer skin and pink centre. I have an abundant crop and limited salads to add them to, and was searching for […]
It’s Thanksgiving Day in Canada. Aside from the usual things (family, friends, relative good health, a warm bed at night and food in the refrigerator), I’m also giving thanks that I live on a part of the continent that usually escapes the worst ravages mother natures throws out, global warming induced or not. I’m reading […]
There were dire warning Saturday and Sunday about imminent frosty nights and protect your tender garden things. I, however, generally don’t protect tender things in the fall. I breath a sigh of relief that I no longer have to water them or dead-head or check for bad bugs. I anticipate with glee more time to…I […]
It’s a watermelon! Nope! It’s a watermelon radish! I planted seeds on August 15 after reading that radishes are a cool weather crop; since I missed the early spring planting window I needed to wait until the end of summer. And it worked! I sowed the seeds in the garlic bed, a few weeks after […]
With autumn just around the corner and waking up to single digit temperatures this morning I thought it was high time to go on a fall photo shoot. I’ll be joining Jim at Garden Ruminations, and no doubt many other gardeners around the world, showcasing fall colours today — hopefully some spring things from Down […]
We’ll have cool nights, but sunny and warm days for this long weekend – very welcome after a few weeks of sporadic torrential downpours and tropical humidity. I’m going to take a look at six things in gardens around the world by dropping into Jim’s site – Garden Ruminations – and join in with three […]
I’m joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden today with an ancient milk jug filled with too tall ironweed and grey coneflowers…they needed to be snipped as the ireonweed, in particular, was in danger of being smushed into the gravel driveway my an ill-aimed car tire or two. I was very happy to read that […]
Sounds like a cheery song from a Disney movie, doesn’t it? It’s the scientific name for the five spotted hawkmoth, which, of course, is what emerges from the pupa of a tomato hornworm. What I learned on Monday is that the caterpillars eat everything in the Solanaeae plant family. That includes tomatoes, yes, but also […]
More than 24 hours and 100 mm of rain later, the air is clear and skies are finally showing a bit of blue. Until the next round, it seems. The pattern most summers, this one included, is for rain clouds to travel north or south of us, leaving our soils parched and our trees and […]
This morning’s light drizzle has ended leaving an overcast sky – perfect for picture taking. I’m joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden with a vase of daisy-like flowers. Echinacea purpurea is mostly past its prime but almost perfect blooms are still to be found, and pair well, I think, with Rudbeckia fulgida, which is […]
