Category Archives: gardens
Soil, Stump Garden and Dump Wagon..
Good Morning.. The weekend has flown by so fast, I had a awesome photo shoot to do Saturday morning and then I went to be help answer soil and garden questions for a couple hours for the local 4-H Loyal … Continue reading
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Strawberry Raised Bed
Creating a Cinder Block Raised Strawberry Bed Last spring we knew that we had to do some work on taking down and doing some major reno work, this meant that it was very good odds that we would … Continue reading
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Tagged Cinder Box Raised Beds, Growing Strawberries, Raised beds, Strawberry plants
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Sunchoke Stems for the Insect hotel “Frugal”
On Saturday, the temps were above 0 and the sun was shining, this meant that we started clearing some very small garden area’s. We needed to prune down the rose bushes and all the baby roses that will be dug … Continue reading
Climate Change and Waking up to soon
Yesterday which was the end of a run day of five days of above 0 temps in the day time and below freezing in the night (perfect weather for the sap run) hubby called me.. Three of this furry fat … Continue reading
Crispy Cornmeal Baked Brussel Sprouts
Crispy Cornmeal Coated Baked Brussel Sprouts Looking for a new way to serve roasted Brussel Sprouts? 1 pound of Brussel Sprouts (baby full size) or full size trimmed and cut in half 1/4th cup of cornmeal 1 tsp of course … Continue reading
Great Pruning Workshop
Thank you Laura from Fine lines landscape and Design for a very interesting and informative pruning workshop. I have a little sample video from the workshop, Laura is talking about what happens when you get two main leaders that form … Continue reading
Natural way to add Christmas Scents to your home.
Like many of us, I adore my house being filled with “Scents” of Christmas time! The scent of the spruce or pine, the scents we think of for baking, cloves, cinnamon.. We have Christmas oranges so all peels are saved … Continue reading
Are you Growing Dried Beans as a Protein Source?
The biggest issue with growing beans for protein is that you are having to give up a lot of space in the garden from seed planted till plant die off and or till you pull up the plants and can … Continue reading
Local Seed Cleaning Event
For my local garden folk! Do you want to learn more about how to save your seed? Want to learn how to make screens to sort your seed? Check out this workshop! So you’ve saved your own seeds, now what? … Continue reading
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Fall Round Up -Ground Cherry Mincemeat Tart Recipe
Apple-Ground Cherry Mincemeat Recipe 6 cups of peeled, cored and coarsely chopped fresh fall apples (I used Spartan) 2 cups of husk removed Ground Cherries 2 cups of golden raisins 1/8 of a cup of finely diced dried ginger 1 … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 