Category Archives: Gal in the Garden Series

Fruit Pruning Workshop Bourget Area

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

I am excited to have partnered up with Laura Moses to host some coming events here on the farm. I have worked with her in the past on different gatherings and lectures over the years. It is the first time i … Continue reading →

Posted in 100 mile diet, At the kitchen table, Food Forest, Fruit Trees, Gal in the Garden Series, homestead | Tagged Farmgal, Farmgal events, farmgal photography, Fine Lines, food forests, fruit, Fruit Trees, Gardening, Hands on fruit tree pruning seminar, just another day on the farm, pruning, Pruning course, Pruning Fruit trees, trees | Leave a comment

The final Garden Harvest in 2023

Posted on January 13, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

The weather this year as been very odd indeed, but I am beyond grateful that we did the huge second fall plantings. It was a strange garden year for us, the second year of gardening in the new big enclosed … Continue reading →

Posted in 100 mile diet, Climate Change, Food Forest, Food in jars, Fruit Trees, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Garden harvest, gardening, homestead | Tagged beans, beets, breaking new garden soil, building a new garden, Canning, dried beans, Farm Life, Food Forest, Garden, Gardening, gardening-tips, Greens, growing your own seed for the next year, Homesteading, late garden harevests, native bees, sandy soil, vegetables, Veggies | 4 Comments

Number One Trick for Loads of Elderberries!

Posted on August 29, 2023 by Just another day on the farm

These a wild (Bird Gifted years ago) local native Black Elderberries. I am lucky enough to have them growing wild in ditches and field edges all over my local area. However those bushes will produce clusters about a 1/3rd of … Continue reading →

Posted in farm, Food Forest, frugal, Fruit Trees, Gal in the Garden Series, Native Plants, wild foods | Tagged Bigger Elderberry harvests, elderberries, Elderberry fruit, How to grow Bigger Elderberry fruit size, Top Trick to grow more elderberry fruit | 3 Comments

Bird Gifted Native Fruit Bushes or Trees Frugal Ways

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Just another day on the farm

Over the years I have been Bird Gifted a host of different native/local fruit producing canes, bushes or trees. My favorite among them all is my hawthorn cluster. I mean look at those blooms, and then all fruit that follows. … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged Food Forest, Garden, Gardening with birds, Native Plants, Producing frugal fruit producing plants, wild bird, Wild bird gifted plants, wild bird poop produces plants, Wild birds helping in your food forest | 5 Comments

Squash or Climbing tunnels

Posted on January 3, 2022 by Just another day on the farm

This lovely photo/drawing is not mine, its from the site I bought mine from.. While I still would like to use Cattle Panels at some point in the future, they are proving harder to get and far more costly then … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, gardening, Kitchen garden | Tagged Cattle Panel Garden, Garden, Garden Tunnel, growing greens in the shade, growing your food, squash tunnel, Vertial Gardening | 4 Comments

Plant and Grow Horseradish

Posted on November 12, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

Say Horseradish and most peaple in canada that I know will think of horseradish sauce or the added spicy in Mustard or Seafood Sauce. The history of Horseradish is long, as in thousand plus year long and yet here in … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Garden harvest, Kitchen garden, Life moves on daily | Tagged Dry Horseradish greens, Dry horseradish greens as a basil replacement, eating horseradish as a young spring salad green, Eating horseradish greens, Grow Horseradish in your kitchen garden, harvesting horseradish root, Horseradish, Make your own green powder, Make your own horseradish sauce | 4 Comments

Ready, Set, Go Plant those Pepper Seeds (zone 5)

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

This year I am growing West Coast Seeds King of the North Sweet Pepper. 68 days green, 90 days red. Large beautiful fruits that are bell shaped. Great producers in our short growing season. I ordered the seeds in 2020 … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged Calwonder heritage pepper, Growing peppers in garden zone 5, King of the north pepper, Starting peppers, Use a heat mat for starting peppers | 5 Comments

Feb (Baby Greenhouse Update)

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

The new indoor greenhouse has been preforming its job in a outstanding way, baby salad greens by the tray have been produced. The pea shoot have been lovely as well, cooking up with that lovely green with hits of bitterness … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, gardens | Tagged Early seedlings, indoor greenhouse, indoor seed starting in feb, Salad greens, Seed starting, Snow pack, Tomato plants, Transplanting Tomato plants | 5 Comments

Changing Ocean Patterns..

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/gulf-stream-amoc-ocean-anomaly-united-states-europe-fa/?fbclid=IwAR1Me04U8QadrJHuIrEsFRGtlKFZDmOU3IzhVjwFKY0FySe89IrIctFV78o Hello Folks, I truly hope that you have had some good things happen this week, we have had the local lockdown move to orange and we have a very low case count at the moment locally so we are … Continue reading →

Posted in At the kitchen table, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged AMOC, Amoc Weakening, canadian Homestead, Farmgal, Garden, Gardening for reduced heat units, homestead, Ocean patterns effecting food prodution, Planning ahead, Planning for a cool season garden | 4 Comments

Waste not, Want Not.. Steaming your starting soil

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

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 →