Winter is coming

Winter is coming

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

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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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