Category Archives: Garden harvest

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

High Bush Cranberry BBQ Sauce Recipe

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

High Bush Cranberry BBQ Sauce 8 cups of late fall harvested after at least one or two good frosts softened High Bush Cranberry * (see note) 2 cups sugar or 1 1/2 cups honey 1 cup of vinegar (If you … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden harvest | Tagged Eatwhatyourgrow, fall berry harvesting, Farmgal's High Bush Cranberries, Forage, Fruit Based BBQ sacues, High Bush Cranberries, High Bush Cranberry BBQ Sauce, High Bush Cranberry BBQ Sauce Recipe, Wild Fruit | Leave a comment

The Last of the Fresh Celery Garden 2021

Posted on November 6, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

Yes.. Today Nov 6th I headed out to harvest the last 5 celery plants growing in Kitchen Garden Plot 1.. way back in the very early spring.. we started so many celery seeds.. that grew into a tray with so … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden harvest | Tagged celery, Celery for winter use, celery harvest, Celery leaves drying for storage, Eat what you grow, Garden Zone 5 | 3 Comments

Fall and Garden Burn out..

Posted on October 14, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

It happens to all of us.. at some point there is a garden burnout.. Where you look at the last of the things coming in and sigh, groan and go NO MORE! Of course there is more.. so much more.. … Continue reading →

Posted in Food in jars, Food Storage, Forage, Garden harvest, photography | Tagged Fall garden harvest, Fall harvest, fall hikes, farm cats, Hunter orange for your dogs, photography, Pumpkin kitten photo | 4 Comments

Lamb Stew Fall Garden

Posted on September 27, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

We are in zone 5 for our gardens and we are coming on the tall end of a number of things, still this fall garden based soup is lighter overall then what I think of as a cold weather winter … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden harvest, Lamb Recipes, Soups and Stews | Tagged Grass Fed Lamb Recipes, Lamb Stew, Lamb stew made with fall veggies, lamb stew with bacon, Lamb stew with squash, soup, Use what you grow, ways to stretch the meal | 2 Comments

Heliopsis – Bleeding Hearts

Posted on September 13, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

What a plant, the flowers start out almost a deep red, shifting to golden hues that magically end up bronze. This is a big plant.. It needs space and sun! It can be done in a mixed bed as the … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Forest, Garden, Garden harvest, Life moves on daily | Tagged Cutting flowers, Feeding the bees, Feeding the finches, Garden, Growing Fall feeder plants for your native bees, Heliopsis Bleeding hearts, native bees, Winter Feed for the finches | 2 Comments

King of the North Pepper Report

Posted on September 8, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

This big guy is the most picture perfect green (stage) King of the North Pepper, It was selected as our main seed saver for 2021. I might yet save from one more yet, I have my eye a different pepper … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Garden harvest, seed saving, Seeds | Tagged Growing Peppers from seed, Growing Peppers in canada, Heritage Pepper, King of the north pepper, Pepper Harvest, Saving Pepper Seeds is so easy, Saving Seed, Sweet Peppers, Thick walled Peppers | 2 Comments

How do you use Sunchokes?

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

I have two main styles of sunchokes, these little fingerlings and they have great flavour and they produce a crazy amount of them but they are tiny and scrubbing them is hard enough, there is no peeling them, so I … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Storage, frugal, Garden harvest | Tagged Crispy oven baked Sunchokes, garden harvest sunchokes, Jerusalem artichokes, Late fall garden harvest, Pickled Sunchokes, sunchokes | 27 Comments

Hard Frost

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

It had to happen but its early.. three weeks early.. Oct 5th.. the first hard killing frost arrived on the farm.. even the things we covered which would have made it though a light frost with the covered, had been … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Storage, Garden harvest, Life moves on daily | Tagged Garden overview 2019 | 10 Comments

Grapes.. still giving and doing their thing..

Posted on September 5, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Two years ago, the grapes pulled down their posts and wire.. its a jumbled mess out there.. it needs to be trimmed, cleaned up and totally rebuilt.. Just one more project that is on the list.. and there it will … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden harvest | 4 Comments