Tag Archives: Homesteading

Potting Up Tomato Plants, Next Pot Please

Posted on March 22, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

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 | 1 Comment

Friday Rambles, a little bit broken March 13/26

Posted on March 13, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

How can it be Friday already, and Friday the 13th to boot, speaking of boots, i am currently wearing a air cast boot along with a wrist brace as i took a good old fashioned fall a week ago. When … Continue reading →

Posted in Friday Rambles | Tagged blog, Broken foot, community, Family, Farm Life, Farmgal's Friday Rambles around the table, forced to slow down, Friday Rambles, gardens, Health Care, Homesteading, life, Plan ahead, Spill the tea, ways to earn money, ways to save money, Writing | 2 Comments

Waste Not Farmgal’s Way

Posted on March 12, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

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 →

Posted in Waste not | Tagged Chitting spuds, compost, Early spring potato planting, food, Frugal, Garden, Gardening, growing potato's, growing potato's in feed bags, Homesteading, potato's in strwa, Sprouting Potato, vegetables, Waste not | 2 Comments

Gal in the Garden Series : Radish

Posted on March 10, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

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 →

Posted in 100 mile diet, Eat what you grow, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged Cherry Bell Radish, Cold Climate Gardening, Cooked Radish, Easter Egg Radish, Easy Seed saving, Farmgal, Fast food in the garden, Food to plate, French Breakfast Radish, Garden, garden zone 5a, Gardening, Gardening in Canada, German Giant Radish, Growing Radish, Homesteading, just another day on the farm, living my dream life on the farm, Pickled Radish, radish, Radish greens, Radish pods, Radish Seed Saving, Radish Sprouts, radish-flowers, Raw Radish, Roasted Radish, Seed Saving, vegetables | Leave a comment

Gal in the Garden Series No Time to Waste

Posted on March 9, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

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 →

Posted in Climate Change, Eat what you grow, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Hard times | Tagged False spring, Fast food in the garden, Garden, garden zone 5a, Gardening, Homesteading, micro zones in your garden, Plant when the soil can be worked, radish, Seeds, Spring garden, spring peas, Straw, temporary garden spaces, think outside the box, use what you have, vegetables | Leave a comment

Gal in the Garden : Gardening in Hard Times Series

Posted on March 3, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

Good Afternoon to my fine fellows, what a time we find ourselves in right now. I do understand that here in Canada, and i expect in many other counties that we are very much seeing the K economy happening in … Continue reading →

Posted in CanadianEh, frugal, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Hard times | Tagged food, Food on the table, Frugal, Gal in the Garden, Garden, Gardening, Gardening in hard time, Hard times, homestead, Homesteading, Inflation | 3 Comments

Beef on the Waddle, The Muscovy

Posted on January 22, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

I have had these amazing ducks on the farm since the first spring we arrived coming on 22 years now. The amount of ducks has come up and down but they are one of the main livestock we always have, … Continue reading →

Posted in Eat what you grow, Grow for your plate | Tagged 100 mile food challange, Backyard flocks, duck-eggs, Ducks, Eat what you grow, Eggs, Eggs for protein, eggs-for-pasta, Fly control, Frugal, Garden, Garden Zone 5, homestead, Homesteading, Muscovy, Ontario, Pest control, Rising Costs, small stock, Spring eggs, why-ducks | 3 Comments

Salad Greens and Seeds are starting to come in

Posted on January 13, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

As we have a large indoor seed starting setup area in the cellar (it was in the basement of the new part of the house) but has now moved to the Cellar which is the the basement of the old … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Seeds | Tagged 100 mile food challange, canada, catalog seed, Farm Life, food is life, Garden, Garden Zone 5, Gardening, Greens, Growing your own food, Homesteading, lettuce, Ontario, price increases, seed, Seeds, starting from seed, supporting your community, top dressing your garden beds, Top soil, vegetables, Victory garden, winter sowing | 4 Comments

Fall Meat Bird Grow out Stats

Posted on December 12, 2025 by Just another day on the farm

In Sept 25 White Rock Meat Chicks ordered from Frey’s Hatchery here in Ontario though our local coop arrived on the farm and were cuddled by Miss R an coo’d over indeed. Dec 10th 24 healthy White Rock Meat Chicks … Continue reading →

Posted in Chickens, Real Life | Tagged 100 mile food challange, Chickens, Costs of raising your own meat chickens, Farm Life, food, homestead, Homesteading, Meat birds, Meat chickens, raising meat chickens, Save where you can, Saving money | Leave a comment

Chick Order Time 2025

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Just another day on the farm

The last couple years i have been ordering in six ready to lay hens and keeping my bird flock very small indeed. It was strange because for the other 17 years on the farm, i always have a mixed flock … Continue reading →