Tag Archives: Garden

High-Altitude Cold-Climate Gardening : Overcoming Wildlife Challenges

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

High-Altitude Cold-Climate Gardening: Overcoming Wildlife Challenges Guest Post by Willowcreekfarm Part 4 of 5 This is our 4th post in this series. Click these links to read the previous posts. Introduction Overcoming the Terrain Overcoming Soil Challenges Now we will … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Garden, homestead | Tagged Cold Climate Gardening, Fencing for gardening with deer, Garden, Gardening in a northern climate, Gardening in a short season under 80 days, homestead, Short season garden, Willowcreekfarm | 7 Comments

High-Altitude Cold-Climate Gardening: Overcoming the Terrain

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

High-Altitude Cold-Climate Gardening: Overcoming the Terrain Guest Post by WillowcreekFarm Part 2 of 5. When gardening on steep, rocky mountainsides the terrain presents quite a challenge. Finding a flat space to build a garden is nearly impossible, and the few … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Garden, homestead | Tagged Cold Climate Gardening, Garden, Gardening in a short season under 80 days, Homesteading, Hoop houses in the garden, raised bed gardening, Sqaure Foot Gardening, Vertial Gardening, Willowcreekfarm | 6 Comments

Custom ordering pre-starts 2019

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Custom Ordering Pre-starts in 2019 Did you just go “what” LOL.. I have had a few folks look at me funny when I said I am thrilled to be working with a local greenhouse owner who is offering pre-starts. These … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden | Tagged Custom ordering pre-starts, Garden, Have a plan in place in regards to early starting plants for the garden, Supporting your local greenhouse business | 8 Comments

Vertical Veggies and Fruits

Posted on January 12, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Creative Gardening Techniques for Grow up in small spaces Book Review I love this book! It gets a solid 5 out of 5 from me.. and I see that it has a solid 4.7 out of 5 on amazon.. there … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged book Review, Garden, Growing your own food, Growing your plants up instead of outward | 3 Comments

Are you Growing Dried Beans as a Protein Source?

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

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 →

Posted in gardens | Tagged beans, dry beans, Garden, homestead | 6 Comments

Nicotiana Rustica – Aztec Tabacco

Posted on November 17, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

I have ordered in a new kind of tobacco to me, it’s often called the Aztec Tobacco and it has a crazy high rate of nicotine. The average tobacco has 1 to 3 percent, this plant on average has 9 … Continue reading →

Posted in frugal, Garden | Tagged Garden | 13 Comments

Early Frost -Weather/Food Productions

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

Well, this spring, we had a very late hard frost at the end of may, Thankfully I had kept all my really tenders in till the first week of june. Having said that, it cut the garden season short by … Continue reading →

Posted in farm | Tagged Garden | 5 Comments

Powdery Mildew and Treatment plan

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

Last week was filled with a number of things that kept us just one foot in front of the other. I might get to the point where I will write about some of it. However the garden is in full … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Life moves on daily | Tagged Garden, Powdery Mildew, Treatments for Powdery Mildew, ways to keep powdery Mildew under control | 2 Comments

Project 2018-Stumps- Maple

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

We have a number of stumps left over from the work done and some of them are smaller, a few mid size and one that is considered large and two that are massive.. Today we are going to talk about … Continue reading →

Posted in gardens | Tagged Garden, permaculture in a old tree stump, Permacutlure, planting in a tree stup, Using Permaculture on the farm | 2 Comments

Making homemade wool tags for the garden

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

Got Sheep? Yes, lovely hair sheep that I adore.. they are my favorites, so easy to work with. Got Wool Sheep? Why yes I do have two wool sheep in my wee flock.. but I don’t use their wool for … Continue reading →