Category Archives: Gal in the Garden Series
Its Coltsfoot bloom time!
Its that time of year that the coltsfoot blooms are up and out on the sunny days, they come out before the leaves and while its a very good idea to dig out the creeping roots in your spring garden … Continue reading
Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Herbal Pantry
Tagged Canning, Coltsfood cough syrup, coltsfoot, Coltsfoot flowers, Coltsfoot stems, Dog Photography, flowers, food, Forage, Garden, Health, Herbal, Herbs, recipe, recipes, Spring harvest
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Raised Hot Box -Manure/Compost Heated
If there is one thing that a farm produces if they have livestock is manure! Here is a more detailed post on it but in a nut shell for our current livestock My Critters average daily output right now That’s … Continue reading
Time to Prune! Garden Zone 5a
Each cut was chosen with care, thank you to the Fine Line’s Landscape company that came out to do our over 50 plus hard fruit trees this year for us! With so many young trees, it was just awesome to … Continue reading
Posted in Fruit Trees, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden
Tagged canada eh, flowers, Fruit Trees, Garden, Garden chores, garden zone 5a, Gardening, March Garden chores, native bees, nature, plants, pruning, Pruning Fruit trees, Snow on the ground, Spring in canada, Spring Pruning, Spring Pruning pear tree, spring pruning sour cherry trees, spring-flowers
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Potting Up Tomato Plants, Next Pot Please
I got in a specially breed type of tomato that is for growing in pots for small spaces, i started six seeds, and i have six plants, five big ones and one wee one that is still growing but no … Continue reading
Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Kitchen garden
Tagged canada eh, cherry tomatos, Farm Life, Frugal, Garden, Gardening, gardening for the kitchen, Gardening in Canada, Gardening in the north, Gardening in zone 5a, grow lights, Grow your own, growing in pots, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, pinching tomato stems, plant starting indoors, potting up, Seed starting, Seeds, tips for repotting tomatos, tomato, vegetables
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Green Lacewings
“Most green lacewings have golden or copper eyes and are found on foliage. They are poor, erratic flyers and strongly attracted to light. Some 25 species occur in Canada, the most common of which are the common green (Chrysoperla carnea) … Continue reading
Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, In the Garden
Tagged canada, eco friendly, farm, Farm Life, Farmgal, flowers, food forests, Frugal, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Garden planning, Gardening, Green Lacewings, Growing your own food, homestead, In the Garden, Lacewings, Low cost ways, Native Plants, nature, Seed starting, Support Lacewings, Working with Nature, Zone 5a gardening
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Gal in the Garden Series : Radish
German Giant Radish has been added to my radish growing this year for a couple of reasons. Ah Radishes, one of the fastest growing crops you can get in the garden. Lets talk about this amazing plant, you have summer … Continue reading
Posted in 100 mile diet, Eat what you grow, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden
Tagged Cherry Bell Radish, Cold Climate Gardening, Cooked Radish, Easter Egg Radish, Easy Seed saving, Farmgal, Fast food in the garden, Food to plate, French Breakfast Radish, Garden, garden zone 5a, Gardening, Gardening in Canada, German Giant Radish, Growing Radish, Homesteading, just another day on the farm, living my dream life on the farm, Pickled Radish, radish, Radish greens, Radish pods, Radish Seed Saving, Radish Sprouts, radish-flowers, Raw Radish, Roasted Radish, Seed Saving, vegetables
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Gal in the Garden Series No Time to Waste
The events globally over the past week will be felt in ever widening ripples and one of them will be food costs, last year i was able to pick up a good load of smaller straw bales, the mini kind … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Eat what you grow, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Hard times
Tagged False spring, Fast food in the garden, Garden, garden zone 5a, Gardening, Homesteading, micro zones in your garden, Plant when the soil can be worked, radish, Seeds, Spring garden, spring peas, Straw, temporary garden spaces, think outside the box, use what you have, vegetables
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Gal in the Garden : Gardening in Hard Times Series
Good Afternoon to my fine fellows, what a time we find ourselves in right now. I do understand that here in Canada, and i expect in many other counties that we are very much seeing the K economy happening in … Continue reading
Posted in CanadianEh, frugal, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Hard times
Tagged food, Food on the table, Frugal, Gal in the Garden, Garden, Gardening, Gardening in hard time, Hard times, homestead, Homesteading, Inflation
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Just another Day on the Farm 