Six more weeks till Winter. Or so the story goes told by Alaskan Natives and sourdoughs alike. When the fireweed has bloomed all the way to the top, we have six more weeks till the snow flies. So far this break up and then into summer, we’ve had some successes….and some failures. That’s pretty typical though. The garden is doing well but could be doing better thanks to the late
I’ve often told newer gardeners that the best thing to do is watch your yard, really watch it for a full season to get a good idea of where the sun is at any given time of the day, where the water collects and lays stagnant most often, which areas are drier, and so on. So, following my own advice, last year that is precisely what I did. Now
This weekend we knew the time had come since the okra got knocked down during that storm last week. It’s time to plant the garlic. Just remember, the best time to plant, by the way, is four to six weeks before your first predicted freeze. For us in USDA determined zone 7A, that means we plant on or about mid September because our first predicted freeze is on or about
The end of the okra that is. We have been deciding what to do with our okra plants that, this year, didn’t really produce much. This is mostly our fault for two different reasons. We planted them too late. We planted them too few. Number 1 was a new lesson. We didn’t have this issue last year as we didn’t plant garlic two years ago.This year the garlic did not
First let me say, I’m so relieved that I didn’t post more about our DIY greenhouse. It survived until about mid January when we had a snow/ice storm that caved in the top somewhat. The windstorm we had in February just finished the job on it. We did get a few fresh onions, some fresh greens, our leeks are just about ready to be pulled and made into soup or
Yes, we are preparing for Autumn. Even though to us these temperatures make us hardly wince. To Sourdoughs from Alaska, 60 degree temperatures mean either late spring, early summer or early Autumn. Still we try to follow the calendar for this area as it seems so do our plants. I guess they know better than us that it’s time to quit, no matter how hot it still feels to us. Our
Remember to order these by June!!!! http://www.filareefarm.com/ps.html Purple Stripe http://www.filareefarm.com/cre.html Creole Recommended by garlicluvr on http://www.idigmygarden.com/forums/showthread.php?p=737567#post737567 My husband & I are really interested in growing garlic. This will be something I have never ever done before!!! Heck, I never even thought about growing it until just as of recently when I tasted the fresh garlic from Brad’s Produce!
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