Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
As the sun rose yesterday it was cold, 21 degrees below zero, but the air was still for the first time in many days. The powdery snow that had fallen all day Thursday lay softly over the ground, and it was easy to imagine myself standing on a movie set somewhere much further south. The […]
Snow squalls off Lake Ontario made for treacherous driving New Year’s Eve and left another three or four inches (7 – 10 cms) of fluffy powder on the ground for a very chilly but sunny New Year’s Day – shoveling wasn’t too difficult! I’m joining Jim at Garden Ruminations today for my first Six on […]
Such a momentous weekend: most of the country falls back to standard time tonight, giving us an extra hour of sleep tomorrow and making winter mornings brighter, earlier; the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team has transformed the city (and the country!) into a blue tinged cauldron of joy as they battle to be World Series […]
Fall colours are muted around here this year, possibly because of the months with no rain over the summer, but there’s still a lot of lovely yellows and oranges with pops of bright red showing on certain trees, such as sumac and red maple. When it comes to yellow, we think of other types of […]
It would be disingenuous for me to claim that a dry late summer has made the garden (and, by extension, me) miserable when, in fact, it’s looking and perhaps feeling quite content. There’s been enough rain to fill the rain barrels which has allowed me to water the raised beds and containers and new trees […]
The garden has been SO BUSY for the past two weeks. All the local honey bees, wasps, hornets, other bees and butterflies seem to have found the goldenrod and sedum that have been in full bloom. Asters have just started so there will be pollen and nectar for a few more weeks. (Still not enough […]
We’ve had some rain; not enough to satisfy thirsty trees and shrubs but enough to wake grass and dandelions from summer dormancy. The damage was done though, and let me say it just once: leaves turned red or brown and fell in August; some flower stalks are half the height they’d normally be; sow thistle […]
No rain, week something…I’m about to sacrifice the tomatoes (which weren’t producing much anyway) and save the last of the rain barrel water for the new red maple whips, containers, and a few selected veggies and flowers. I didn’t plan it this way, but when I looked through the photos I took yesterday morning the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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