Tag Archives: Spring garden

We are now four weeks from last frost date

Posted on April 25, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

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 →

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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 →

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Gal in the Garden – Rock Garden, Working on the kitchen garden

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Well, its a been a good week in the gardens, we have had frost a couple times so plants are being taken out during the day and brought in for the evenings and or covered an things are still very … Continue reading →