Category Archives: Gal in the Garden Series

Rain Garden 2019

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Let me introduce you to our lovely rain garden.. which is built in before our pond and its overflow will in fact go into the pond.. Now the pond was dug down and leveled with rounded swaying sides to make … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged Building a dry creek bed, building a rain garden, Planting out a rain garden, Rain Garden, Rain Garden ontario, Rain Garden Ottawa, Rain Garden Zone 5 | 5 Comments

Spring Rhubarb

Posted on May 29, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

I love rhubarb and its finally here for 2019.. We had a very slow start to our spring and now we are having a cool wet start to the garden season. While I know others might not agree with me, … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden harvest | Tagged Growing Rhubarb on the homestead | 7 Comments

Gal in the Garden Series – Kitchen Garden Update

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

The long weekend has come and gone and we had amazing weather, our first hot/muggy day, black flies have arrived and a crazy amount of rain overnight.. to this we were able to get a lot of work done.. My … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged Gal in the Garden Series, Kitchen garden, Making a new garden area | 3 Comments

Fruit Tree’s Nut Bushes and Pond Edging

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Good Morning Folks.. I hope you had a great weekend! We had good weather for the whole weekend, I mean it was spring, moving between to cool, cold with wind and then hot with sun.. Having said that.. we were … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, gardening, gardens, Life moves on daily | Tagged Flowering lawn mix, Kitchen garden, planting bareroot fruit trees, planting bareroot nut bushes | 6 Comments

Gal in the Garden Series – Raised Bed Trough

Posted on May 2, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

This week has been both a great week in the gardens and also a wet cold one.. As can often happen, the rain moved around the farm in waves, we did get rain but now where near what other folks … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged Gal in the Garden Series, garden on the homestead, interplanting in garden beds, raised bed gardening, spring garden zone 5, Spring Gardening | 3 Comments

Easter “flowers” for the Table

Posted on April 19, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Easter is here and so many will be in the stores buying Easter lily’s (keep them away from your cats please,) and others will be buying hot-house raised flowers. While they are lovely, they are also costly, often have traveled … Continue reading →

Posted in frugal, Gal in the Garden Series | Tagged natural spring filled vase with flowering tree cuttings | 3 Comments

Gal in the Garden Series- Slow start to spring..

Posted on April 17, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

What a strange time it has been in the yard and gardens, we have had some really nice days that almost got to second digits. They say that we are going to get into the low teens this coming week.. … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Gooseberry bushes, high bush cranberry, preparing garden beds for spring, pruning in the gardens, rhubarb in the garden | 7 Comments

Using Sand to help melt the snow around smaller fruit trees

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

We have spent the money on those lovely fruit whips or maybe we clipped starts for propagation or even in some cases started from seed and we have those little plants out in the cold northern winter. One of things … Continue reading →

Posted in frugal, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged Using Sand to help free fruit tree branches, Using sand to help melt out fruit bushes to reduce breakage, Using sand to help melt things in the garden | 6 Comments

The Gal in the Garden Series 2019 “Spring Ordering”

Posted on March 27, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Let me tell you straight up that I have NEVER ordered as much off farm tree’s, bushes, plants and plant plug trays and garden veggies as I have this year. Spring orders for 2019 Bare Root Fruit Tree’s Bare Root … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged Farm dogs, farmgal's garden, Gal in the Garden Series, homestead garden, Manure based composting garden bed, permaculture, pruning | 2 Comments

Stump Garden 2019

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Last fall a huge old Maple Tree came down in the “Yard Shake up 2018” and it left me with this huge rotted out stump. I meant to do more with this it last fall but all I really got … Continue reading →