Mucking Around

A post covering what I am harvesting from the garden right now.

A couple of weeks back, Seedy Saturday was held at the Kingston Public Library downtown location. I had the opportunity to attend, so I did. If you have never been to one of these events, I suggest you do. There were seed vendors there selling many different types of seeds as well as booths for [...]

Tracey and I had a lovely garden growing last year on our balcony. As I pointed out before in my post about carrots, some vegetables grew wonderful in the containers, others not so well. Onions Another vegetable that did really well in containers were onions.  I planted the onions from seed in the spring and [...]

Local author Janette Haase is putting on a workshop based around her book From Seed to Table. Garden design, planting, and harvesting   Eating locally and seasonally Understanding the environmental issues When: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Where: 1566 Middle Road, Kingston Cost: $69- includes light lunch and a copy of From [...]

I attended a class at St. Lawrence College this weekend on greenhouse and cold frame design. I found the class very informative as I went in not knowing a whole lot about the subject. I wanted to learn how to extend my growing season and perhaps eventually have a year round growing season and also [...]

I attended a cooking class fall of 07 at Loblaws on Indian style cooking. One of the recipes we learned in the class was Chai Tea. Tracey and I both love Chai Tea and we do make it with the tea bags and add hot milk to it and we enjoy that when we are [...]

I was up at my parents over the holidays and I was investigating how to properly prune tomato plants. My dad gave me some pointers this summer, but his method is very extreme, cut off any branch that doesn’t have fruit on it. I used that method and did okay actually, but I was thinking [...]

Living in an apartment, our garden space is limited. This past summer, like the summer before, we grew vegetables in my patio containers. This year, we had good luck with some plants, others not so much. One plant we had really good luck with was carrots. The seeds were purchased from Veseys Seed and they [...]

Welcome to our blog. This is my blog will cover mainly Tracey and my gardening experiences and different recipes we try in the kitchen. This will also be where I put more of my personal comments. My other blog at www.ToddLamothe.com will still cover certification, deployment and other IT stuff. So enjoy and we hope [...]