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I did not move from middle America to get away from Kochia (tumble weed) but it sure was a blessing to be rid of! Up here I react to birch pollen, and live in a Birch forest!

All that exertion made me wanna sit down so i went to my facorite place (the Greenhouse) and did a quick “progress photo shoot” before getting run out by the temp.😊 once all the Peas have emerged they’ll get the big bump right into their final home. Im waiting on a little higher soil temp for...

Next i took the Gauss meter out to do some generic comparison. 3 of the antenna’s all read about the same depending on how long you move around looking for a sweet spot. This newest one showed no greater “RF” activity than the others even tough it has nearly 4 times the copper wire wraps! Then i...

Up here thawing is slow and we work where we can as we make the change from winter to summer! This new onion bed is a good example; 8 inches in from the edges its still like a rock but that’s just perfect for my project today. One of my 3 new Electroculture antenna’s went into that bed and the...

Only 1 tray of parsnip’s remains up-stairs under lights; every thing else is in the greenhouse now. All the large nursery pots are loaded with soil and have been amended. Very soon the Peas, Artichokes and Pumpkins will go in those pots. Mean while as i dash about doing this and that; i notice...

The condition you described to us; sounds perfect to me. There’s water in the pot and it doesn’t sound waterlogged. Trust your meter. Bell peppers starting to look little better now. I'm doing a soil moisture test to maybe tell when to water. With my finger in soil to first knuckle feels dry...

I try to use all alike pots in the 3 sizes i keep And know from years of similarity what a 3.5, 5 inch and 2gal. Pot feels like with right out of the bag potting soil or that same pot well watered. Most water too much n my opinion. i’ve also got this very cool moisture and P.H meter which i use...

The easier way would have been to do all the dirt work in the fall, which i’ll remember in the fall; hopefully!😳

This afternoon, i drug the sled out to the back fence and two at a time; loaded 8-20 gal. Pots of frozen soil on the sled and yarded them to the greenhouse. There, they were dumped into 8-25 gal pots. The remainder will consist of my compost, organic garden soil and Root’s organic potting soil...

Thank you, it is a lot of fun for me, a lot of work as well. Now that everything is in place “it’s paying off” but the bigger thing for us is the quality And assurance that everything was grown as cleanly (organic) as is humanly possible.

With so much snow it seems a shame to make everything wait so i moved a bunch of the starts today. Some into their intended location (celery, some lettuce, pole beans, cucumber's & stevia and the remainder was up-potted as it waits another couple weeks to go out. Tomorrow i’ll finish moving...

Stoners say us Alaskans live in a “free State” because of our lax pot laws. Be that as it may, them same stoners operate a number of “high end” garden centers with every conceivable thing and none of it is free? Today i made my yearly pilgrimage to the “weed store” for some new pots and organic...

Yes @Phaedra, disinfection is the purpose. A lot of folks recognize us for our very short AND aggressive growing season; they just don’t realize that aggressiveness includes all life forms. Fungus gnats and Mites are my primary target, either of which can cripple the Greenhouse and due to the...

Well, the Dove didn’t return! - - (my lettuce starts survived a couple 16/17F nights in the cold frame; so i’ll go ahead and move the others in! Moved the Artichokes out to the greenhouse today for (hopefully) 10 days of 45-55F, to accomplish the suggested vernalization. Next will be the...

@digitS' , far from earliest anything; however there was some green grass showing right up against that 5ft tall snow, piled at the end of the plow line. But another inch of snow covered it up last night!

And from Alaska!

The foot of ice left from winters plowing makes it like walking across the face of a Glacier as i head up to the Greenhouse. I’ve dug out the gate to one of the cold frames and stuck a couple lettuce starts in, as an experiment, sorta like when Noah tossed that Dove out the window for the first...

What we give up in terms of seasonal length, we make up for in daylight. Pretty soon we’ll have 19 hours of daylight if for only a little while. i don’t grow anything “in the ground” but rather in large raised beds both outside and in a greenhouse. They are filled with my own soil mix and...

BYC = back yard chickens; one of the “sister sites” along with BYH, back yard herd!

“Necessity is the mother of invention” is an applicable term for gardeners everywhere and a lot of us adapt based on our local conditions. I’ve read all the hype about this or that not liking to be transplanted and would agree that in a perfect world you should plant everything in it’s intended...