Category Archives: Garden

Lovage Harvest for 2017

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Lovage is commonly known as a pot herb, it is a huge plant and those with limited space often remove this outstanding plant from their garden because of this.. I will be doing three collecting and harvests of this plant … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden | Tagged Growing Lovage in the garden, Lovage, Lovage as a pot herb, Lovage celery flavour leaves, Lovage for herbal use, Lovage for tea, Reason's to grow lovage | 16 Comments

Canning Rhubarb Juice (Mock Pink Lemonade #2)

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

My dear hubby and my testers all agree, that the cooked, strained rhubarb tastes like rhubarb juice but everyone says that the stream processed takes like a wonderful Pink Lemonade version of it. I have to admit that its delightful … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden | Tagged Canning Mixed Rhubarb Fruits, Canning Rhubarb, Canning Rhubarb Juice, Making Rhubarb Juice with steam canner, rhubarb, Rhubarb Juice, Rhubarb mix fruit | 3 Comments

May Garden Overview -2017 Tracking Year Data

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Hello Folks, I am going to do my best heading into 2017 to have a big old tracking year, I need to do this and I have the book, the paperwork and the plan.. I will make it happen.. So … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Garden harvest | Tagged Garden, garden overview 2017, Garden tracking stats 2017, homestead garden, Seed starting | 2 Comments

Burdock Leaf Tea.

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Burdock root tea is very good for you, you want to harvest the first year roots in the mid July to end of July when they are around an inch to inch and half in size and about 12 to … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Forest, Garden, Life moves on daily | Tagged Burdock first year harvesting leaves and roots, Burdock for tea, Burdock Leaf Tea, Burdock Leafs | 7 Comments

We love our toads- So we just had to rescue hundreds of tadpoles

Posted on May 21, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

The little pig wallow was drying out and fast.. and in the last bits were hundreds of wee tadpoles. Needless to say.. we had to do something.. This is not the first time we have rescued and set up a … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden | Tagged Raising Tadpoles, Saving Tadpoles, Tadpoles, toads in the gardens | 2 Comments

Spring Green Drying- For fodder vs Human Use

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

This fine Monday morning is a one of my double duty days, that mean’s that Dh has his writers group tonight in the big city.. So I will be doing both sets of chores today and the rest of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden | Tagged Air Drying outside, Drying herbs, Drying Nettles for fodder | 3 Comments

Seed Potato’s are in.

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Yesterday was busy and then some and the weekend is geared up to be looking the same.. One of the things that came in yesterday was the notice that my seed potato’s were in the post office and that I … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden | Tagged Potato for the year, potato's in the garden, Potato's on the homestead, Seed Potatoes | 4 Comments

12 Ways to Use Rhubarb with Recipes

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Lets look at some of Farmgal’s Rhubarb Recipes over the years posted on the blog. Strawberry Rhubarb Pie (something you can find locally in spring at all the stores) This is a very much a standard spring pie across Canada. … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden | Tagged 12 rhubarb recipes, Carrot Ginger rhubarb flowers Soup, Orange Rhubarb BBQ Sauce Recipe, Rhubarb Apple mint and Spruce Tip Crisp, Rhubarb Cake with Ginger, Rhubarb Crisp Recipe, Rhubarb Dumpling Recipe, Rhubarb Nettle Iced Tea Recipe, Rhubarb on a cloud pie recipe, Rhubarb Relish Recipe, Rhubarb Saskatoon Pie recipe, Spring Rhubarb, Strawberry Rhubarb Pie | 3 Comments

Rhubarb Cake Recipe – Spring Rhubarb and Ginger

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Happy May Day! It was fitting that in the cold bitter spring rain, I headed out with a knife in one hand and poking though my 30 rhubarb plants, I took the biggest stalk off 8 of them (worth … Continue reading →