Category Archives: gardens

Golden Needles Harvesting

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Just another day on the farm

or in common terms, picking and drying lots and lots! of unopenned Day Lily flowers. Ah, the common, humble daylily that most of us call, tigerlily’s or Ditch Lily’s are so wonderful to have in the kitchen, the little root … Continue reading →

Posted in frugal, gardens, wild foods | Tagged 100 mile food challange, Food Production and Recipes, Frugal, Garden, Wild Foods | 4 Comments

Just work’in away

Posted on July 21, 2016 by Just another day on the farm

So many rasberries need picking every day or two.. perfect still piking the last of the peas, they are almost finished and the beans are in bloom now! the red current are almost finished but the black and white are … Continue reading →

Posted in gardens | Tagged Canning, canning fruit, canning jam, Garden, red current jelly, soft fruit, steam juicer, this an that post | 5 Comments

Blue Pod Capucijners peas-overview

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Just another day on the farm

Blue Pod Capucijners (pre 1800) A beautiful heirloom pea that is pretty enough to grow as an ornamental. Tall vines grow 5-6’ and the flowers and pods are purple. The very young pods can be used as a snow pea … Continue reading →

Posted in gardens | Tagged Blue Pod Capucijners, drought year plants, Gardening on the homestead, growing peas, harvesting peas for seed | 3 Comments

Garden Updates..

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Just another day on the farm

So front garden area,straw garden rows Row one-planted two kinds winter sqaush Row two- planted- pumpkin Row Three- Sqaush Teepee- Back seeded the hot, beans, and the pea’s broud beans an greens are all up Back filling with cabbage plants.. … Continue reading →

Posted in gardens | Tagged Garden 2016, spring planting | 3 Comments

Turning Fallowed Land back into production

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Just another day on the farm

We have a piece of land that has been a huge challenge to garden that is right in the middle of our main garden space.. Lets talk about its challenges.. For our flat level farm land, It has a wicked … Continue reading →

Posted in gardens | Tagged Cover Cropping, Fallow Land, Gardening raw land, homesteading in zone 5, Planning a Fodder Garden, Planting fodder crops, Using chickens to clean up garden land, Using Mustard as a cover crop, Using Pigs as plows | 5 Comments

Brussel Sprouts 2015 and Roasted Recipe

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Just another day on the farm

I am 5, 10 and as you can see even falling over a bit, those are some nice looking brussel sprout plants growing up around the Bean Teepee for 2015, I also put some in a different bed (but the … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden harvest, gardens | Tagged Brussel Sprouts, Feeding brussel Sprout plants to pigs, Garden harvest, Growing Brussel Sprouts, Growing Brussel Sprouts in canada, homestead food, Processing Brussel Sprouts, Roasted Brussel Sprouts Recipe | 11 Comments

5 Reasons to Join your local Plants Groups

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Just another day on the farm

No matter where you live, be it city, town, country or homesteading, the odds are good that at some point and time, you are going to want to produce your own food.. its a logical step.. Even if it starts … Continue reading →

Posted in gardens, Life moves on daily | Tagged Food for harvest, Gardening, Heritage plants, Homesteading, Local Plant events ottawa, Plant breeding Programs, Plant groups, Raising crops for your farm animals, Saving Seeds | 1 Comment

Purple Sweet Potato

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Just another day on the farm

As you know I grew three kinds of sweet potatoes this year, The standard orange, the white fleshed and the purple.. I have to buy special short season pre-started slips, I have started my own slips as well from short … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Storage, gardens | Tagged Gardening, Growing food for winter storage, Growing purple potatoes, Growing short season sweet potatoes, Growing Sweet potatoes in zone 5, Growing Sweet potatoes on the homestead, Winter Storage | 1 Comment

Pai-Tsai mustard greens

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Just another day on the farm

Fast growing, productive Pai-Tsai green from Taiwan. Fun Jen is a sweet tasting, mild mustard with crisp tender leaves and stems. Produces smooth, white petioles with slightly wrinkled light green broad leaves. Plant is semi-spreading and is tolerant to both … Continue reading →

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Melons

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Just another day on the farm

The melon bed is doing well, other then the cucumber beetles, which are battled daily, the plants being treated proactively for powdery mildew.. they are starting to run, which is great but It means that I need to expand their … Continue reading →