Category Archives: gardening

What a garden season its been 2024

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

How did your garden grow? How was your final harvests? Have you had your first hard frost? Still growing, still harvesting? My overview of the gardens for the farm for 2024 Hard Fruit, including Apples, Pears, Cherries, Plums, Peaches Apples- … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Garden harvest, gardening, Kitchen garden, Rain Garden | Tagged Farm Life, Garden, garden overview, Gardening, Gardening for the pantry, Gardening in Eastern Ontario, Gardening in rain year, Gardening in Zone 5, Gardening to fill your freezer, Greens, grow your own food, Growing for the table, Growing your own food, Homesteading, rain effecting garden yeilds, Rain Gardens, Raised beds, small Farm, tomatoes, vegetables, Veggies | 4 Comments

The final Garden Harvest in 2023

Posted on January 13, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

The weather this year as been very odd indeed, but I am beyond grateful that we did the huge second fall plantings. It was a strange garden year for us, the second year of gardening in the new big enclosed … Continue reading →

Posted in 100 mile diet, Climate Change, Food Forest, Food in jars, Fruit Trees, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Garden harvest, gardening, homestead | Tagged beans, beets, breaking new garden soil, building a new garden, Canning, dried beans, Farm Life, Food Forest, Garden, Gardening, gardening-tips, Greens, growing your own seed for the next year, Homesteading, late garden harevests, native bees, sandy soil, vegetables, Veggies | 4 Comments

Squash or Climbing tunnels

Posted on January 3, 2022 by Just another day on the farm

This lovely photo/drawing is not mine, its from the site I bought mine from.. While I still would like to use Cattle Panels at some point in the future, they are proving harder to get and far more costly then … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, gardening, Kitchen garden | Tagged Cattle Panel Garden, Garden, Garden Tunnel, growing greens in the shade, growing your food, squash tunnel, Vertial Gardening | 4 Comments

Garden Planning 2021

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

I am going to be planting a ton of flowers this coming year.. We need some pretty and I want to increase the ability to have flower full of vases. It has been very interesting to work on our garden … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, gardening | Tagged buy your seeds early 2021, Garden, Garden planning, Planning your garden, prepare, Seeds, winter garden planning 2021 | 7 Comments

Kitchen Garden 2021 (Jan)

Posted on January 2, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

On the first day of Jan 2021, it started to snow.. and this morning on the 2nd we woke up finally to a good winter snow cover.. I am crossing my fingers that the snow is here to stay, these … Continue reading →

Posted in gardening, local food | Tagged Garden, Kitchen garden, Snow cover in the garden | 4 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

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 →

Posted in Garden, gardening, Life moves on daily | Tagged wire worm in the a new garden space, wire worms in potato's | 2 Comments

The Gal in the Garden Series 2019

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

This is the weekly overview of the gardens. I will still do detailed posts lots of different garden related subjects. I will bring them back and show cases them here on the weekly round-up. Happy first day of spring! 2019 … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, gardening, Goals | Tagged first day of spring, Garden, gomestead garden, Spring Gardening | 1 Comment

A new Layered Food Hedge Row

Posted on June 3, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

Hubby and I worked together today to put the next two layers into this new coming hedge row. We have been working on this 40 foot by approx. three foot bed for a while this spring.. first we have to … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, gardening | Tagged Food Hedge Row, Layered Food Hedge Row, Making a new garden area, No till Gardening, Permacutlure, Using Permaculture on the farm, Using your homemade compost | 20 Comments

Sun Shining.. Bitter Winds.. Change in the air!

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

The heater in the living room has been turned off now, the sunlight pouring in the big windows heats it nicely during the day and while it does cool off during the evening, we are not the room at that … Continue reading →