Gardening in Alaska~Winter Returns

Life in Alaska moves infinitely slower than it does where we came from on the East coast but our gardening season is much much faster.  So much so that it stunned me how quickly it ended.  By the middle of September we were getting close to the type of temperatures that would kill the cold loving brassicas so we knew, the time has come to harvest what was left. Gardening

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Back from vacation!

The nice thing about vacations when you have a garden is you get the wonderful treat of seeing how your garden did in your absence.  All in all I’m pretty happy with our progress.  Something ate every single little leaf off our parsley so that bit the dust.  I’m betting it was a neighborhood squirrel.  Our lemon balm obviously didn’t like the heat as a good portion of it died

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