Month Archives: June 2026

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Summer

How to Keep Hanging Baskets Alive During Summer Heat
Your basket looked incredible in June, full and bright, spilling over the edges of the pot the way it did on the tag photo. Then July hit, the heat settled in over Kingston, and by the second week you're pulling crispy leaves off a plant that's clearly struggling. Baskets dry out faster than almost anything else you grow, and once they fall behind on water, everything else, the blooms, the colour, the shape, starts to slide with them. Why Hanging Baskets …
Growing

How to Keep Your Vegetable Garden Thriving Through the Summer Heat
Your veggies were doing fine, then the heat waves arrived. It's one of the most common things we hear at the garden centre by mid-summer: plants that looked great in June are wilting daily, fruit is dropping before it matures, and nothing seems to be working. Ontario summers can be genuinely hard on a vegetable garden, and Kingston's July heat is no exception. The combination of heat, humidity, and stretches without rain pushes plants past what they can handle on …
Growing

How to Identify and Fix Bare Spots in Your Lawn
You noticed it sometime in May. A rough patch by the fence, or along the path you take to the back garden every morning. By June it's worse, and now it's July and it's still there. Bare spots don't fix themselves. Fixing them well isn't complicated, but it mostly comes down to knowing what caused the spot in the first place, because that changes everything about how you approach the repair. Throw seed down without that step and you'll likely …
Summer

Seeding vs. Sodding: Which Is Right For You?
Two approaches, one result. But the path you take shapes how much you spend and how that lawn performs five seasons from now. Kingston homeowners arrive at this decision from different directions. A new build where the contractor left the site graded down to bare clay. A renovation stripped the turf. A dry summer that wiped out half an established lawn and left you starting over. Whatever the reason, the question is the same one that comes up on most …
Growing

Drought-Resistant Gardening in Ontario: Plants, Mulch, and Watering Strategies That Work
Every summer, Kingston homeowners face the same conversation with their gardens. The weather turns dry, the city's odd/even watering schedule goes into effect, and a yard that looked healthy in May starts showing stress by mid-July. A garden that handles drought isn't about accepting a patchy yard that barely survives July. It's about choosing plants that don't demand constant water and managing your soil so each application goes further. What Kingston's Water Restrictions Actually Mean Kingston's seasonal watering rules are based on …
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