Recent content by Alasgun

With winter lingering things will be different once we get going this year, not impossible, just different! All the garden starts are still being run thru at the prescribed start times so the peculiar part will come when it’s time to move everything from the house to the greenhouse. Once nights...

I doubt there’s any sympathy from the local police towards carrying a handgun but id imagine bear spray would accomplish the same thing. Here in Alaska if a dog walker is on a road and his dog is leashed and another dog comes from where ever to jump on your dog, it is perfectly legal to “end...

Im not quite sure what a cut garden is but welcome to the forum from Alaska! We know a thing or two about “Ice Storms” too. Mike

Some lite reading, explaining this cycle many find their self in this winter. We awakened to minus 10f, again! And i also read where Saturn and Pluto will be experiencing a planetary convergence; that im sure will impact our weather as well.🫣 Or, you can see it explained in the book of Job:37...

Well today it’s 27 and I’m about to push the last 4 inches of snow. Groceries are a subjective thing; I’m sure they are more expensive than some places but we’ve noticed not as expensive as western N Dakota where we moved from! I do grow a bunch of our stuff however there’s no way to grow all of...

Have we lost sight of the “Electroculture” campaign that was kinda popular a couple years ago? I know some probably felt like they needed knee boots when discussing the subject, and i was chief among the skeptics until i discovered how well it worked on the slugs. Zero maintenance, no messy...

Each winter i’ll build a few of these as a way to stay busy (pass the long winter) and always enjoy that time. The garden is waking up so i better quit playing and get after it, in earnest! Oh yea, it’s garden related if i add any fish guts to the Hydroslate barrel and apply it to the plants! Mike

Im pretty much a stick in the mud, never putting any effort into eclipses, Northern Lights etc. They got coffee table books for that! We have a photograph of the Kennicott mine out of Chitna Alaska, taken in the middle of the night showing a fabulous Northern Lights display. The Photographer...

Ive grown the “CoastalStar” Romaine for years now, it does well for me up here. I’ll keep starting these now on into spring and at a point they’ll all go to the greenhouse then into one of the cold frames as the weather moderates. In time i’ll have a roughly structured “rotation” going that will...

Once ive got the lights going each spring, i’ll start some Romain for fresh eating, it’s pretty fast and always a treat. These 8 should be edible in another 4 weeks? The Parsley’s ready to up-pot now, and the Cilantro is ready now.

Can’t eat them fast enough! Even got one plant that loves me enough to grow hooks on the fruit to support themselves if i don’t get there in time with the little plastic support hooks!🤭 MIke

On that “potty” subject 🤭 when we first moved up here the Iditarod started just down the road and all we had to do was drive 2 blocks out to the frontage road and get in line with myriad others parked along the road to watch. Having a fertile imagination is a healthy thing but mine get’s off in...

Im a sucker for Sweet Peas as well and have bought from these folks for a long time. These later years i find myself gravitating to the fragrance collections. Mike https://www.selectseeds.com/collections/sweet-peas

While living in the Dakotas we tried the sand/root cellar thing. Before long everything smelled like and tasted like dirty sand! Maybe if you started with clean washed sand that would work well. It was a nice arrangement; i used bee boxes to store them so id sit one on the sand floor then a...

Back in the 60’s we’d say “hey Man; can you dig it”? Well , that’s where im at with the new grow lights! I can dig it!!! Just getting going right now but some Lettuce & Cilantro (for fresh eating) Parsley, Celery, Mint and Comfrey are thriving under them. Tomato’s and some flowers will go...