Tag Archives: Homesteading
We are now four weeks from last frost date
Its happening, the biggest of the heat loving Tomato plants are starting the in-out cycle! The shelves in the porch greenhouse are getting cleared, the big top ones first for the tomato and cucumber patio type plants. This week the … Continue reading
Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden
Tagged big garden, farm, Garden, Gardening, Gardening ottawa valley, gardening zone 5, growing your own seedlings, hardening off, homestead, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, Planning your garden, planting seedlings, Plants want to grow, Seed starting, seedlings, Seeds, soil, soil health, Spring garden, spring planting, vegetables, vertical gardeningg
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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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Bird Sale Results
My favorite Bird and small animal sale was a huge event indeed, it was triple deep standing room only, i came home with Quail Hatching Eggs We will see how they do, as they go into lockdown this coming weekend, … Continue reading
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
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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Friday Rambles, a little bit broken March 13/26
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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Just another Day on the Farm 