In My Alaska Garden: Harvest!
Strawberries
Though a little later than expected, we are finally seeing the (literal) fruits of our labor in the hoop house!
Tri-color beans
More tri-color beans
We have several cukes growing to a nice size on the plants
Snow Pea Pods
The second batch of lettuce
I’ve been sick for the last three weeks and haven’t felt much like writing or anything else. I wanted to at least get the pictures out to you of what’s been happening in the hoop house. I have a lot more near-future writing about what I’ve learned and the changes we want to make for next year. Let me know how everything is going in your garden!
I too am slow to catch up to all that is going on.
I am THRILLED your hoop house is turning out such great produce!! We should have our first ripe tomato in the next few days, weeks earlier than last year!!
Squash is turning out just enough, lots!!, to make me happy!! We are getting in our last planting of greens for the winter hold over and trying some carrots to over winter…will see how that goes.
Hope you feel better soon!
Yo Linda,Do you take all your yearly garden pictures on the same day? Got to admit the sky in the background always looks like white overcast. What gives? From dumb former farmer.
Linda, the produce from your hoop house is lovely. Feel better soon!
I actually had some decent sweetcorn. I didn’t water the stuff because I had to replant so many times. Coons didn’t bother it at all until I decided to take some garden goodies to Evansdale and visit my No. 1 nephew from Florida. Of course,the night before I picked the coons decided to test their table manners. I did take two plastic grocery bags of corn along with taters and onions. I’m re-doing my raised bed-eight,ten foot long by 16 inches high,metal cement forms. It is spreading out and about to fall over. Bought strap irons to bolt the ends together and have tons of new cattle stuff and fresh dirt for fill for next year. I have my only tomato plants growing in the bed and can’t complete renovations until they are harvested. Have had about two and a half inches of rain in the last three weeks. Been seeing a number of wild turkeys and poults in the general vicinity recently. Still have spuds to dig. Kinda tired of eating them. Stays dry this fall I will have all manure scattered out and tilled under for spring. Looking forward to better conditions next year.
We’ve had a break in the cold and wet which has marked this summer- too late for some things but good enough to let 4th crop of lettuces and greens take off growing like mad.
Someone who grows turnips in cool climate- help?! I can’t get but greens to grow!
Linda- your beans are doubly beautiful because I can’t grow them here 🙂
Hoping you are feeling some better and waiting to hear how your various experiments have shaken out.
Don’t want to sound like a complete doofus,but is there a county or statewidw extension office/website you can contact for help? Pretty much all 99 counties in Ioway have them and they are usually quite helpful with garden ,insect,weed identification problems,etc.
You don’t sound like a doofus at all Mikey. We do have an extension agent.
He attended a Master Gardener’s get together this spring so I know who he is. Maybe I should call him. Thanks!
Our area here has so many microclimates that 5 miles away people can grow things I can’t (because they get 50″ rain when I get over 90″) and vice versa
I’m overloaded with tomatoes, this year’s efforts against the deer have really pad off. The plum tree is propped up with poles and my ladder to keep more branches from breaking,not quite ripe yet, but I bought a mess of canning jars for plum jam, and will be heading off to the wine store for yeast this weekend so I can attempt plum wine once again… pear tree has a bumper crop also, and no one wants raspberries any more, too many ! will be sending some jam to my friends in Juneau…. Pi, do ya need a refill on those baggies ?
yuppers ben, please.
Will be sending you some garden pics . I have 2 eeny weeny teeny tiny Glacier variety tomatoes 🙂
They, if they mature, are of about the $47/lb variety given all the work to get em to even happen .
Laugh at myself daily for even trying… yet again.
Spuds are tall as me now ( and no smart remarks about how short that is! ) and starting to flower.
For Merrycricket and others who like coming up with different ways to fix garden goodies a friend sent this to me and I can hardly wait to try it :
http://tastykitchen.com/blog/2012/08/chipotle-and-lime-roasted-potatoes/
okay dokay, arti-chokey… baggies will arrive with plum jam… will harvest plums next week end as this coming weekend, am driving youngest to SoCal to start her last 2 yrs of higher learning ,… chortle…Pi, when you get on your soap box, you’re almost eye level !!! 🙂 Ben runs for the hills !!!
People don’t want raspberries???!!!!
I tend to ignore the usual volleys thrown at CA but this is first time I’ve heard definitive evidence folks there can be nuts
Don’t want raspberries?
That’s a sin.
It is.
Agreed. Ben, put those raspberries in the dehydrator. When they’re dry, send them my way!
Yes, yes it is. I think we counted 7 more on the bushes today at lunch. That would bring the summer’s total to 14 berries. YES, that’s 14 total raspberries, not 14 cups or pints or quarts; just 14 lonely berries.
Hey, benlomond2, you should feel free to send all the extra raspberries to Pi and me; we promise to share them (we’re nearly neighbors!)!
You got 14?!
Wow. I think I’ve had about 10 so far this year.
Dadgum *%@%&*(_)^$#ing porkies , anyway.
Yes- we would share Ben and we would share with our “Greek” Bear too 🙂
Looking good, Linda,
We’ve had so much rain here this summer (and I won’t complain, because in this case too much beats too little) that our bumper “crops” have been skeeters, frogs, toadstools, and Spanish needles (a most pernicious weed with seeds that burrow through your clothes to stab you…they multiplied wildly after Hurricane Ivan…but I must admit that the bees like their flowers, so there is that…) Hen fruit has been pretty steady, but lots of moulting going on as the days get shorter, so production is down for now.
The produce stand down the road has been my “garden” this summer. Tomatoes and peaches and melons and sweet corn…And we picked gallons of blueberries at a local berry farm. Will we plant a fall garden this year? Time will tell.
For now, I’m off to the library to check out this year’s crop of scholars.
Let’s get out there and learn something today. 🙂
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