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Im old too so if there’s too many; i may have fallen asleep with the tablet on my lap and who knows after that? I really appreciate “some” of todays technology but from time to time want to treat it like my old friend Pierce did when the 51 chevy pickup got his goat while changing the GENERATOR...

Normally i’ll start 4 plants early in July, up stairs in one of the grow areas and they will produce until about now then we suffer thru till spring waiting for the greenhouse to start producing. This is my first year trying to keep them year round so this group was started 9 weeks ago. The new...

The wind broke the top half of this tree off last week so i have no problem running screws into her! And with an ambient of minus 18 i thought it a good time to knock together a temporary suet feeder. With 20/30lbs of trim (suet) left over from this fall’s yak/beef butchering i was starting to...

My second area is a little larger and where the bigger stuff resides. This section got a couple of the new LED’s as well; and about half of the retiring T-5 fixtures can be seen on the floor. Each of these LED’s give great light saturation over a 3 1/2 by 3 1/2 footprint. Over here the drivers...

Made some up-grades to my seed starting area’s recently. All the hardware’s in place and the lights are hung over the top shelf. In a couple days i’ll move the Mint and Comfrey which are on the lower shelf, then i can finish hanging the remaining lights at which point; “i’m open for business”...

Ive just finished this “Mother in Law” apartment (mini hive) or Nucleus as they are known. In the spring i’m going to populate my full size Top Bar Hive with roughly 6lb’s of bees with a queen. This will leave me a queen and a couple pounds of bees with no where to go - - so, this Nuc will...

As a child, 70 years ago i can remember my Grandfather picking some for us on a camping/fishing trip with me and my mother, in West Virginia. It was much stronger than the Beemans Wintergreen gum!

I put these beets up on September 24th and at that time bagged a lot of the greens. Using those “green produce bags” i’ve kept them in the same fridge’s we use for the root crops and i will eat the last meal off of them on Friday! That’s nearly 90 days.

Thanks Dahlia, Comfrey and Chocolate mint are the easiest things i grow and would make anyone “look like a gardener”!🫣

Last week this bathtub was hosting a large pot of Cucumbers that grew on a cattle panel trellis up to the ceiling. Now that i’ve picked the last cuke, we’re “transitioning” to what’s next. Until the new lights arive later this week all that entailed was to give the area a good cleaning and...

Another pair of Moose showed up, not really a surprise unless you walk around the corner and find them!😳 After perusing the spent flower pot’s they sauntered over to the bird feeder and showed no alarm by all the “dead stuff”.

i cant add anything to make them better!

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!