Growing

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 …

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 …

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 …

Garden season in Kingston has a way of sneaking up on you. If you're staring at your beds and shrubs wondering if you've missed your window to get started on a beautiful garden for summer, you haven't. But the spring to summer transition moves quickly, and a focused effort right now makes the rest of the season a lot easier to manage. Start with a Walk Find a branch that looks grey and dry while the rest of the shrub has leafed …