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
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
So this is what happens when you just throw your hands up on your garden and say “do whatever you want!”. You get squash plants gone wild. On the right side we now know for certain we have a Long Island Cheese Pumpkin, on the left I’m pretty certain we have a Galeux D’eysines and on the bottom (you can barely tell) is an acorn squash which was a complete
A few might recall I posted a giveaway for free seeds a while ago. I do have a few left to give out which I have listed down below here but here’s a bonus for those who received some of those free seeds. A bit of history. I am the type of person who loves reading the history behind a plant. How did it become so popular? Why is this certain vegetable
My new favorite winter squash is the Black Futsu squash! Really! I think this almost qualifies as a new love of mine!Let me just say this is the most delectable, the most tasty winter squash that so far I have yet to enjoy! We purchased our seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom seeds because it just looked interesting. Here is their description. Rare, black Japanese squash, the fruit is flattened, round
This weekend I decided to bite the bullet and tear out our lovely, beautiful lone tomatillo plant. If you remember right I posted earlier that I made the rookie mistake of only planting one tomatillo plant. You know, the old saying, it takes two to tango? Well that applies here. Tomatillo plants are self infertile which means they need two plants to produce fruit. Since I only planted one plant the tomatillo was
A weekend not spent camping usually means a productive day or two in the garden. This weekend we didn’t go camping so we managed to tidy up a bit, pull weeds, move some of our squash and cucumber vines around and work in our compost bins a bit. To those who are new to reading here, we do both traditional compost and Vermicompost. Traditional composting is more or less just
It’s now been, what? Almost a month and maybe even a week since I’ve written. I kept having the best intentions to write and then…..something always got in my way. First I injured my left foot while walking through the garden, next, was my laptop which decided right now was a perfect time for an epic fail. Then next hubby having yet another TDY, while my son and I were
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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