Tag Archives: Gardening
Current Propagation -Pinning
Red, White, Black, Gooseberry, Jostaberry are all part of the current family, and they all can be very successfully cloned by pinning. What are some good reason you would want to pin your favorites? or ask your friend to do … Continue reading
Posted in Cookies, Eat what you grow, Food Forest, frugal, Garden
Tagged Black Current, Black Current cake recipe, Black Current Cookie Recipe, Current, Current cake, Current jelly, Current juice, Current sauce, Currents, Dried currents, Eat what you grow, farmgate sales, Frugal, fruit bushes, Garden, Gardening, Homesteading, nature, Pink currents, Pinning Currents, Pinning plants, plants, Propagation, Red Current, save money where you can, steam juicer, Support your pollinators, wasp, wasp photography, Wasp pollinating a current flower, White currents
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Lettuce Plugs -Transplant day
Have you seen the price of lettuce these days, it can cost as much as 6 dollars for full size head of lettuce in the store, 5.99 or you can get three smaller sized head of romaine for 9.00 but … Continue reading
Raised Hot Box -Manure/Compost Heated
If there is one thing that a farm produces if they have livestock is manure! Here is a more detailed post on it but in a nut shell for our current livestock My Critters average daily output right now That’s … Continue reading
Dormant Oil Spray Get to it!
Lets Talk about why we want to spray our fruit trees, fruit bushes and rose bushes with Dormant Oil, we are protecting then from certain overwintering pests and fungal diseases. Its giving the trees a head start in the spring … Continue reading
Friday Rambles, grab a cuppa and join me
The hot gossip locally is all about the Moose! There are two adults and yearling and they have been keeping everyone hands on 2 and 10 and eyes peeled as they are loving the new growth that has taken place … Continue reading
Posted in At the kitchen table
Tagged At the kitchen table, be the change, canada eh, coffee, come for a visit, community garden, compost, composting, Elderberry, Farmgal, friday ramble, Garden, Gardening, helping hand, horse manure, just another day on the farm, nature, pruning, quail, Quail eggs, Rabbit, Rabbit maure, spring, Tea, WHY not
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Time to Prune! Garden Zone 5a
Each cut was chosen with care, thank you to the Fine Line’s Landscape company that came out to do our over 50 plus hard fruit trees this year for us! With so many young trees, it was just awesome to … Continue reading
Posted in Fruit Trees, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden
Tagged canada eh, flowers, Fruit Trees, Garden, Garden chores, garden zone 5a, Gardening, March Garden chores, native bees, nature, plants, pruning, Pruning Fruit trees, Snow on the ground, Spring in canada, Spring Pruning, Spring Pruning pear tree, spring pruning sour cherry trees, spring-flowers
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Potting Up Tomato Plants, Next Pot Please
I got in a specially breed type of tomato that is for growing in pots for small spaces, i started six seeds, and i have six plants, five big ones and one wee one that is still growing but no … Continue reading
Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Kitchen garden
Tagged canada eh, cherry tomatos, Farm Life, Frugal, Garden, Gardening, gardening for the kitchen, Gardening in Canada, Gardening in the north, Gardening in zone 5a, grow lights, Grow your own, growing in pots, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, pinching tomato stems, plant starting indoors, potting up, Seed starting, Seeds, tips for repotting tomatos, tomato, vegetables
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Green Lacewings
“Most green lacewings have golden or copper eyes and are found on foliage. They are poor, erratic flyers and strongly attracted to light. Some 25 species occur in Canada, the most common of which are the common green (Chrysoperla carnea) … Continue reading
Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, In the Garden
Tagged canada, eco friendly, farm, Farm Life, Farmgal, flowers, food forests, Frugal, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Garden planning, Gardening, Green Lacewings, Growing your own food, homestead, In the Garden, Lacewings, Low cost ways, Native Plants, nature, Seed starting, Support Lacewings, Working with Nature, Zone 5a gardening
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Just another Day on the Farm 