Tag Archives: Gardening

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

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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

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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

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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

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Spring Equinox is here!

Today is the day here in the north hemisphere that we will have equal amounts of sunlight vs darkness and tomorrow there will be even more light! We have already been getting more light since the darkest day in Jan, … Continue reading

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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

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Waste Not Farmgal’s Way

Welcome to Waste Not, we will find a way series. This will be a very broad coverage, it could be a way to prepare and freeze something, it could be away to take a leftover and turn it into a … Continue reading

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Gal in the Garden Series : Radish

German Giant Radish has been added to my radish growing this year for a couple of reasons. Ah Radishes, one of the fastest growing crops you can get in the garden. Lets talk about this amazing plant, you have summer … Continue reading

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Gal in the Garden Series No Time to Waste

The events globally over the past week will be felt in ever widening ripples and one of them will be food costs, last year i was able to pick up a good load of smaller straw bales, the mini kind … Continue reading

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Community Supported Gardens Peach Program

Here in Ottawa valley in Ontario, garden zone 5a it is the month where ideally we will be pruning hard fruit trees of all kinds. Long time readers know that i have been and continue to be active with other … Continue reading

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