Tag Archives: Garden
What’s working in the garden in this heat and drought..
Well, most of you know that I love to try a number of different things in the garden, and I have had alot of success with my no-till, dry land planting spacing and with my mulching.. Having said that, this … Continue reading
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Tagged compost, dry land planting, Food Forest, Garden, Greens, Hugelbeet, hugelculture, underground compost pits
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First of the garden count is in.. Currents, and Blueberries..
Well, the first of the fruit count is in this year and it surely does reflect a different spring and what late frosts can do.. Red Currents- a mear 8 cups worth- $6 dollars worth locally.. No on farm black … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 mile food challange, Canning, Food Production and Recipes, Garden, Soft Fruits, Wild Foods
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Food Forest-Hiding in plain view..
If you drove by this, would you see anything other than a green jungle? Currently in that front green jungle there is Apple Trees Pear Trees Plum Trees Sweet Cherry Trees Sour Cherry Trees Mulberry High Bush Cranberry Honey Berry … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 mile food challange, Farm Life, Food Forest, Food Production and Recipes, Frugal, Garden, Greens, Health, Herbs, nature, plants, Soft Fruits, Veggies, Wildlife
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Green composting in place
I was able to watch some of Back To Eden yesterday and I will certainly plan to watch the rest, I was about 40 min into it and I very much liked the idea of how he creates soil but once … Continue reading
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Tagged Burdock, compost, Compost Tea, Garden, Greens, Health, Stinging Nettles
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Orange Rhubarb Chutney Recipe
Rhubarb Orange Chutney. 8 cups frcsh chopped rhubarb, 1 cups of chopped onions, 1 cup of golden raisins, 3/4 cup of apple cidar vinager, zest of two oranges and the fresh done juice of them, plus 1/4 cup of lemon … Continue reading
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Tagged Food Production and Recipes, Garden, Lamb Recipes, Soft Fruits, Veggies
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Garden Monday
Well, I didn’t get much done in the garden on the weekend, but hubby worked on it for a bit on the saturday when he was puttering around.. he got a new row of strawberries done, plus cleared the area … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 mile food challange, Food Production and Recipes, Frugal, Garden, Greens, Herbs, Veggies, Wild Foods
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Garden Monday- Apples/Ontario, Sea of Blue and Plants Swap..
Well, we all worried that this would happen, and here is the lastest news.. Sigh.. “A catastrophic freeze has wiped out about 80 per cent of Ontario’s apple crop and has the province’s fruit industry looking at losses already estimated … Continue reading
The Double Dug W Potato Bed
While I have played around with growing Potato’s in towers, in strawbales and even in last years “sacrifice outside winter feeding area” the way we grow most of our potato’s is in our double dug 3 foot wide W planted beds. … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 mile food challange, compost, Double Dug Method, Farm Life, Frugal, Garden, Herbs, Nettles, Potatos, Raised beds, Veggies
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Hugelculture-Making “hill” beds for garden use!
This was by far the best seminar at the event, it was hosted by one of Greenshire’s members for those of my readers that can watch video, here is a link to one that they have done that you might like, … Continue reading
Food Forests or Producing Hedgerows-Farmgal Style.
so while I will share the offical seven layers of the basic idea of a “Food Forest“. I am also going to take this back to Farmgal first hand experance because it turns out that what I have been making … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 mile food challange, Frugal, Garden, Health, Soft Fruits, Wild Foods
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Just another Day on the Farm 