Recent content by Alasgun

Looking ahead a couple months to seed starting and remembering some issues with the T-5 fixtures brought my lazyness to the surface again and i bought a half dozen new lights! These will take care of most of it and if necessary i’ll pick up a couple more! Im amazed at the level of technology...

Suicidal Turkey? On Thanksgiving day this young Turkey walked down the hill (from our neighbor) and hung out in the Church parking lot all day With Thanksgiving activities going on inside the building! It was still there today so i took this picture.

Believing everything you read on Garden forums! “experience is what you get when you don't get what you want!”

I use the crawl space too and can successfully store them, with some exceptions! In Alaska my crawl space is low 60’s thru out the year and the furnace is down there so in the winter it stays pretty constant. However: the outside temp will vary from 40f down to -15f. To create a more stable...

I must be a stick in the mud? Same stuff, same quantity, same vendors; year after year. I did increase the Benary’s Giant Zinnia selection a little! And, all of next years seed arrived last month! Lately i’m real conscious of what i can do without next year, deletions are based on amount of...

This is one of the “indoor cukes”. I thought it would be horrible but it isn’t! The rind is a bit tough but it’s still got the sweet flavor customary to this variety. AND it will last us all week!

What can i say? Living in Alaska has it’s perks! I fired up the Bird feeder this afternoon and within a half hour had all kinds of visitors! How cool is that to have an Eagle eating out of your bird feeder?

Until it runs out, each Rabbit gets a Kale leaf, a Comfrey leaf and a handful of the now pretty dry Carrot tops. Of the 5 breeders, 4 of them go to the Carrot tops first!

Now that the very last Cucumbers and Parsley were taken from the greenhouse and the heat shut down; i feel a little bit like a fish out of water! Freezing temps both day and night now, means it was also time to shut the Rabbits in for the winter as well. I do still have cucumbers, mint and...

For me with Parsnips another portion of my reasoning is that Parsnips take 3 or more weeks to germinate coupled with our short season left me with the same impression you had! I’d start those things in #35’s in groups of 10 or so per pot and nurse them along till i could get them in the ground...

Did you plant the Parsley root from seed you started then transplanted out? I ask because a lot of my Parsnips looked like that until i just direct seeded them. Knowing my Parsnips were 120 day roots and being concerned they would not do well in a much shorter season was my reasoning to...

Set up the “winter cuke hootch” this afternoon. 8 weeks till first fruit then for 4/5 more months after that. Seeds are in the ground. The outer walls knock up or down pretty easily and the sticks on top are moveable to accommodate what ever im growing at that time. This is in the shop which...

With snow forecast in a couple days i took the tour and gathered up some Parsley, Cilantro, a few very immature crooknecks and a few Comfrey sprigs. Earlier today i was going thru some old work pictures and wondered if you might like this Polar Bear? He spent most of the day on that jut of...

Don't just quit after the first thing you find, there are tons of opinions about it’s use. From a medicinal standpoint we only use it as a poultice but have had great success using it for the usual strains/sprains as well as many respiratory ailments! Then keep reading and learn that it’s NPK...

Aches and pains both muscular and structural are where Comfrey really shines! Known to our forefathers as “knitbone” i find it Very Useful for far more than Rabbit fodder! Your a smart girl, and it’s super easy to grow AND use!