Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
I’m happy to report that, for once, the weather forecast was accurate – we received about 3/4 of an inch on rain Saturday night into Sunday morning – almost 20 mm. Enough to give the garden a much needed drink and to almost refill my three large rain barrels. perfect timing, as well, as temperatures […]
Another week with no rain…Clematis is being crispified but a few things are looking almost normal… Whether a result of bulbs buried deeply, a huge fibrous root ball or even a bit of hand watering, there’s a few things in the garden looking pretty good this weekend – good enough certainly to add them to […]
We finally had a bit of rain early yesterday morning, the first rainfall of July for us, only about 10 mm but enough to perk up the garden a bit and replenish, a bit, the rain barrels. It was enough to encourage a Zinnia to open – the first in my Zinnia patch, the early […]
Week whatever of our summer drought. Areas north, south, east and west of us have been getting the odd thundershower but my County, or at least my part of it, jutting down into Lake Ontario as it does, has had just a few drops, literally, of rain the the past many weeks. Think crispy, dust […]
It seems insensitive to complain about our weather (very hot, very humid, very dry) considering so many other places in the world have experienced worse this summer, but let me just say my rain barrels are almost empty and I fear for my tomatoes. I was wandering about the garden early yesterday morning and noticed, […]
June was really busy and although I was out taking pictures many mornings they mostly never made it to the processing stage. So there’s a bit of catch up today although I will start with something brand new to my garden – this eye-catching butterfly bush a friend gifted me last Sunday. I know these […]
County Gardening 