Category Archives: Garden

Gal in the Garden – Rock Garden, Working on the kitchen garden

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Well, its a been a good week in the gardens, we have had frost a couple times so plants are being taken out during the day and brought in for the evenings and or covered an things are still very … Continue reading →

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Wire Wormings in New Garden Area’s

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Copied from the  U of Sask..  Its just to good information not to share! Potato wireworm in new garden beds Are you digging a new vegetable garden this year? Most of us love to plant root crops like potatoes in … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Spring Greens – Dock Greens Sauce

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

Dock is a spring plant to me..  I like its young tender leaves in the spring but once it starts to flower and or in seed mode, it becomes quite a bit stronger in flavour..  I love using the seeds … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Gal in the Garden April Walk About

Posted on April 7, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Hello Folks.. Ready to see my snowy, messy.. what the heck happened last year to my gardens, walk about.. I could not even get into my main garden yet.. so you will get those first photos in may.. So here … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Farmgal’s All Seeing Eye 2019- March Update

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Do you make money? Ya but what did it cost you to raise that chicken? But if you had to buy it, what would it be worth? What do you spend to have what you have? But it does not … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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