Category Archives: Garden
We are now four weeks from last frost date
Its happening, the biggest of the heat loving Tomato plants are starting the in-out cycle! The shelves in the porch greenhouse are getting cleared, the big top ones first for the tomato and cucumber patio type plants. This week the … Continue reading
Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden
Tagged big garden, farm, Garden, Gardening, Gardening ottawa valley, gardening zone 5, growing your own seedlings, hardening off, homestead, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, Planning your garden, planting seedlings, Plants want to grow, Seed starting, seedlings, Seeds, soil, soil health, Spring garden, spring planting, vegetables, vertical gardeningg
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Wool Tags for the Garden 2026
Shearing took place at my girlfriends farm, last weekend, it was not ideally in the sense of it coming off a week of rain but timing is as it goes, I headed over to pick up a HUGE stuffed full … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, sheep
Tagged Extra way to earn money on wool on homesteads, Gardening, Gardening in hard times, homestead, Just another day on the farm wool tags, Shearing, sheep, Sheep Wool, Sheep wool tags, small-farms, Support Local, Wool, Wool helps feed your plants, Wool helps retain moisture, Wool in garden pots, Wool in place of peat, Wool in raised beds, Wool in the garden, Wool pellets, wool slow release fertilizer, Wool tags
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Sweet Pickled Beets Recipe
The Keys to Farmgal Pickled Beets is Roasting your beets (never boil them) and the brine.. Sweet Pickling Brine per 4 pints, double or triple or more at will.. In a non-reactive pot, add the above together, bring to a … Continue reading
Posted in Canning, Food in jars, Garden, Garden harvest
Tagged Beet, Beet peels to chickens, beets, beets heart health, Canning Pantry, Chicken scraps, dinner, Eat for your health, Eat for your heart, Eat what you grow, fodder, food, Food in jars, Pantry, Pickled beets, pickles, Pickling brine, recipe, recipes, Roasting beets, Sweet Pickled Beets, Sweet pickled Roasted beets, Water bath canning beets, Waterbath canning
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Mushroom Compost
We picked up 500 plus pounds of twice bloomed mushroom bags from down the way about ten minutes give or take, love supporting small local farms, we have been buying mushrooms from them for a couple years now, so when … Continue reading
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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Current Propagation -Pinning
Red, White, Black, Gooseberry, Jostaberry are all part of the current family, and they all can be very successfully cloned by pinning. What are some good reason you would want to pin your favorites? or ask your friend to do … Continue reading
Posted in Cookies, Eat what you grow, Food Forest, frugal, Garden
Tagged Black Current, Black Current cake recipe, Black Current Cookie Recipe, Current, Current cake, Current jelly, Current juice, Current sauce, Currents, Dried currents, Eat what you grow, farmgate sales, Frugal, fruit bushes, Garden, Gardening, Homesteading, nature, Pink currents, Pinning Currents, Pinning plants, plants, Propagation, Red Current, save money where you can, steam juicer, Support your pollinators, wasp, wasp photography, Wasp pollinating a current flower, White currents
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Lettuce Plugs -Transplant day
Have you seen the price of lettuce these days, it can cost as much as 6 dollars for full size head of lettuce in the store, 5.99 or you can get three smaller sized head of romaine for 9.00 but … Continue reading
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
Just another Day on the Farm 