Category Archives: gardening

Worth the time and investment-Soil blockers..

Posted on February 28, 2013 by

http://www.leevalley.com/en/garden/page.aspx?p=69004&cat=2%2C47236 A little video on using these,  has anyone used these?? If so, did you like them, was it work the money? I really like the idea of them, but I don’t like the idea of needing to buy the … Continue reading →

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Working on a new Hugelculture Bed.. the biggest to date yet..

Posted on September 24, 2012 by

Given that, I am going to break this down into parts just to show how long this process truly takes when you are doing it by hand and not with a backhoe or tractors etc.. So the first thing after … Continue reading →

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Green composting in place

Posted on June 9, 2012 by

I was able to watch some of Back To Eden yesterday and I will certainly plan to watch the rest, I was about 40 min into it and I very much liked the idea of how he creates soil but once … Continue reading →

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Garden Monday- Apples/Ontario, Sea of Blue and Plants Swap..

Posted on May 7, 2012 by

Well, we all worried that this would happen, and here is the lastest news.. Sigh.. “A catastrophic freeze has wiped out about 80 per cent of Ontario’s apple crop  and has the province’s fruit industry looking at losses already estimated … Continue reading →

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The Double Dug W Potato Bed

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

While I have played around with growing Potato’s in towers, in strawbales and even in last years “sacrifice outside winter feeding area” the way we grow most of our potato’s is in our double dug 3 foot wide W planted beds. … Continue reading →

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Garden-My $2 dollar “cold frame” Horse Trough

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

Ok so I picked up this nice big metal water trough for $2 dollars as it was rusted though, now it was fixable if you had a welder but that was not what I wanted if for.. So the glass … Continue reading →

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Garden Monday- Indepence Day 03-12

Posted on March 12, 2012 by

I decided to combine the wonderful Independence Day Challange with the once a month garden update for my monday’s main posts. Plant something: Kale, onions Harvest something: Everything counts – Sprouts, Eggs, Milk- Preserve something: Yogurt, Soft Yogurt Cheese, dried … Continue reading →

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Garden Monday-Indepence Days

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

I decided to combine the wonderful Independence Day Challange with the once a month garden update for my monday’s main posts. Plant something: Wheat for sprouts, radish sprouts, ginger root Harvest something: Everything counts – Sprouts, Eggs, Milk- New for … Continue reading →

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Garden Monday-Indepence Days-Monthly “How does your Garden Grow”

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

I decided to combine the wonderful Independence Day Challange with the once a month garden update for my monday’s main posts. Going to also add links to blog I read that are doing this challange, if anyone else who read’s … Continue reading →

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Buying in Bulk for the farm/garden/critters

Posted on February 26, 2012 by

Wow, was this a output in terms of cost, and I will need to buy a few more steel garbage cans to make sure I can have proper storage for some of these, last thing I want is to lose … Continue reading →

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