Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
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 […]
We’re on the outer edges of a ‘heat dome’ that’s centred over Ohio, Mississippi and Tennessee. With our humidex temperatures approaching 40 degrees celsius (more than 100 fahrenheit), I can’t imagine what it’s like further south. A side effect of this dome appears to be random, rambling thunderstorms that have brought flooding to many areas […]
It’s a chilly, rainy weekend here – great for reading a book or visiting garden centres (I’m just back from visiting three in the area – no crowds at all which is very sad for them but nice for me) but not great for toodling about taking photos of pretty flowers. Happily, I was out […]
‘Remnants’ of Hurricane Beryl passed through the area on Thursday, leaving behind four inches of rain but, unlike other areas on the continent, no death or damage. (More than a million people near Houston, Texas, have been without electricity since Monday!) It’s rare for us, so far inland and so far north, to experience these […]
Spring ephemerals are blooming, and things are emerging in the kitchen garden!
A few delightful surprises have shown up in the garden…Six on Saturday
A jar of summer delight from the kitchen garden.
It’s been a pretty glorious week here – half a day of rain on Wednesday but the rest of the week has been nothing but sunshine and unicorns. I was able to get my tomatoes and dahlias planted yesterday and will be sinking gladiola bulbs later today, as well as sowing Zinnia and beet seeds. […]
It’s rainy today, but how glorious was yesterday??
The very photogenic strawflower has a vase to itself this week.