One Alaskans greenhouse

[Alasgun]

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 keep us in lettuce thru late fall.

My usual is to sprinkle a dozen seeds on the top of the soil in a #35 pot and lightly scratch them in. 3 weeks later do it again. As they come up i’ll transplant what i need while they are still in the cotyledon stage and i never lose any!

I hammered this teaspoon mostly flat then ground the sides and polished it smooth. It’s about 3/4 wide and extremely handy for lifting small transplants.

Mike

 

[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 are above freezing the Toyo will keep up in the greenhouse and it’s smooth sailing.

For now everything’s doing well so we’ll just keep plodding along with a hopeful attitude.

One up-side to all this is having so many lights on in different places leaves me with room for some fresh eating stuff, until i need the space for start trays. Our own Lettuce and Parsley are always welcome at this time of year!

Tomato’s, Cucumbers, Chard and Broccoli are looking good as well.

Mike

 

[Alasgun]

I keep expecting to find a Python in my cuke jungle!

Mike

 

[Alasgun]

And today, i plucked 4 of them; before the Python finds them!

Mike

 

[Alasgun]

It was “Pot luck” out at the feeder today! As the weather warms i don’t want a bunch of meat/fat scraps languishing to draw flys and stink. So i dumped the last of it in the trough a couple days ago which set’s well with a half dozen Magpies and a big group of tweety birds. Between them they’ll have this all cleaned up in the next couple weeks and i can take down the makeshift feeder.

Normally i only save the bones which are hung a few at a time but there’s never quite enough to make it all the way thru winter. This year i saved all the trim as well which seemed to work out fine. By next year i’ll have a more esthetically pleasing trough type feeder for these scraps.

Mike

 

[Alasgun]

“Just another day in Alaska”

I had a little “Farming” to do; shuffling starts, thinning etc which resulted in a tray of cuke starts i didn’t care for so i replanted some more. I set the old ones on the porch and finished up expecting to dump these when i went out to the shop.
1/2 hour later i open the front door to find this ragged looking Cow eating some cut flowers i’d previously stuck in the snow bank.
So with this discovery; i gently slid the 10x10 of cukes over to the edge of the porch and left the front door open a couple inches.
After polishing off the old flowers she sauntered over to the porch and made quick work of the cukes, then moseyed over to my neighbors where she’s eating the spent left overs in a hanging basket, hanging on the front porch.

Mike‍