gardening

Dec 15, 2024

Blooming near Christmas

It's another grey day in Grey County. Unlike yesterday, when the sun was out and shining bright. I don't think we've had more than one...

Sep 29, 2024

It's a warm, though overcast day at the farmette. Summer seems to be clinging on, with temperatures over the past week in the mid to high...

Sep 8, 2024

It's a cloudy day at the farmette. Woke up to 6C temperature. BRRRRR. We're supposed to get back to some sort of normal - like 20+...

Jul 30, 2023

It's a sunny day at the farmette. Not as humid as it has been, and we received about an inch of rain over Friday and Saturday. Everything...

Jul 2, 2023

Happy Canada Day a day late from the farmette! I intentionally got this red verbena with white baby's breath to have some of our country...

Jun 4, 2023

It's yet another hot, sunny day in Grey. We're almost into the d-word as in drought, with a couple of weeks of no rain at all. It's been...

May 28, 2023

It's a gorgeous day again at the farmette. Sunny and plus 20 degrees Celsius. It looks like we're in for quite a few more days like this,...

May 21, 2023

It's the Victoria Day weekend, and traditionally the time when we - and many, many others - go full-on into planting season. Yesterday...

Apr 23, 2023

It's a grey, wet day at the farmette. The upside is that everything is greening up nicely. The downside is that I can't get out into the...

May 21, 2017

It's a rainy day at the farmette - and I'm glad I got the whole big vegetable garden in yesterday. My body, on the other hand, is not so...

Mar 5, 2017

So I finally got around to snooping through the Vesey's Seeds catalogue, and man, oh, man, I'm all pumped for spring. This year, the...