Author Archives: Just another day on the farm
Native Plants are the must have “hot garden item ” of 2021
When it comes to landscaping, garden centers and the local garden groups locally, provincally and across N.A. The HOT trend for 2021 is without a doubt.. Native Plants with tag lines including plant natives, support the bees, support the butterflies … Continue reading
Cottonwood Buds Salve
 Cottonwood Salve or oil or Balm of Gilead Ah 2021.. if there has ever! been a year that you should be on top of getting your harvests on things that can only be harvested “ONCE” a year, this is the … Continue reading
Waste not, Want Not.. Steaming your starting soil
I have a very large bag of potting soil that I did not use last year, but of course I had cut into it and needed just a bit out of it to finish my started plants. This bag had … Continue reading
Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden
Tagged Be creative, don't bring eggs in your soil into the house, potting soil, seed starting with leftover soil, Steam your soil to 180, Steaming Soil, Steaming soil to clean it for seed starting, Useing your stream juicer to steam your soil, Waste not want not
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No Buy Feb 10 years strong..
Now I have always adored No Buy Feb because it leads into my Pantry March Challenge.. these two combined have let me find so many weakness and build in strengths into my homestead. What is No Buy Feb? Its pretty … Continue reading
Jan Updates Frugal and Declutter..
The 2021 budget is wide and vast, some area’s are super lean, some area’s are like a fat cat that wants heavy cream and the good fatty fish.. Thankfully some are one off’s! Other area’s are unknowns.. Budget/Frugal or Fat … Continue reading
Friday Rambles -Putter
The Indoor Greenhouse is filled with salad greens, radish starts, a couple baby tomato seedlings, cucumber babies already on its first true leaves, the mircogreens are doing well and I have added in another set of trays, I like the … Continue reading
Air Root Pots
If there is one thing you will read me saying this year, Bringing it in house.. This means that If I can find a way to make things work based on what I have or based on a very small … Continue reading
Posted in gardens
Tagged air root pots, air rooting pots, creating new plants, using air pots
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One year in..
Can you believe that its been one year since we first “offically” heard that we had our first case in canada? Regardless of your feelings on the subject, its very safe to say that pretty much no matter where you … Continue reading
Posted in Life moves on daily
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Switch grass panicum virgatum
http://ontariograsses.com/main/species.php?id=3080 I have ordered in enough Switch Grass Seed to do a Quarter Acre worth of plants, I have a Multi level Multi Year plan for them. This year, I will be starting a number of them and then transfering … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 