Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
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 […]
I think we’re done with frosty nights now, and it’s safe to start hardening off the tomato, peppers and marigolds I started indoors last month. They won’t be planted out for a few more weeks but I know they’ll be much happier out on the back porch then stuck indoors under grow lights – at […]
There’s a very dark, very large cloud heading our way at the moment (7:02 a.m. on Saturday) and it’s supposed to provide another round of heavy rain all day. So much for best laid spring garden work plans eh? I’m very happy I took some photos Thursday evening as the sun was going down and […]
We’ve had a LOT of rain in the past few weeks, with thunderstorms on their way, again, later today and overnight, but we’ve also had some deliciously warm and sunny days. That combination has encouraged spring bulbs and sleeping edibles to explode with fresh foliage and many, finally, flowers. I’m able to join Jim at […]
Winter is now just a memory of deep snow and frigid nights – it’s truly amazing how fast we’ve flipped the calendar to April and all of a sudden spring bulbs are poking through no longer frozen soil and yes, there are even a few flowers in bloom. There’s enough happening in my garden today […]
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 […]