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Member since: Mar 08 | Last seen: Jun 13 | Years gardening: 6 | Organic gardener
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16 Jun 2013
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Sunny 26°C / 78°FFirst official harvest. (I have picked enough lettuce for a few side salads already). Made into pesto.
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14 Jun 2013
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Sunny 22°C / 72°FEveryone complains about the weather, me especially. So I am going to dedicate this blog to the MAGNIFICENT weather the Anchorage area has been lucky/blessed to receive. It’s been in the 70s for the last two weeks and it’s supposed to get into the 80s this weekend! Anyone who hasn...
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07 Jun 2013
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Sunny 18°C / 65°FAfter our garden consult in the fall, we decided to add three beds on the side of our house (the sunniest part of the yard.) Building them, arranging them, filling them and adding the structures to help keep them warm took more time than I had hoped, but they are done. Left box: mini greenhouse M...
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27 May 2013Shallots Dying
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The old timers talk about when plant out day was Memorial Day weekend. In recent years Mother’s Day has been safe to plant. The final say is the old adage, “when the birch leaves are the size of a squirrel’s ear.” Scientifically, that means that the soil is 50 degrees a...Sunny 21°C / 70°F -
18 May 2013
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Snow 2°C / 36°FSnow. It snowed from 1pm yesterday to about 1pm today. Stuck to the grassy areas, but it is almost melted. More of emotional mayhem than anything else. I usually plant out by now, but with it getting below freezing every night, I haven’t even started to harden off. Perhaps this week com...
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29 Apr 2013
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Sunny 2°C / 36°FBreakup is the time in Alaska when snow melts, and your jack ‘o lantern appears from the depths of the snow along with other, less desirable items, such as dog poop, rusty tools and bodies. It’s Alaskans’ least favorite season. It’s smelly and muddy, then dusty. Everythin...
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31 Mar 2013Tomato 'Cherry' Sprouting and Tomato 'Sungold' Sprouting
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Light Freezing Fog -1°C / 30°FSungolds and cherry toms were planted last week in vericompost. Unfortunately, worm compost is a cold compost, meaning their is no heat to kill off weed seeds in the process. Because I tossed a pint of rotten cherry tomatoes in there a few months ago, now I have lots of volunteer tomatoes growi...
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30 Sep 2012Carrot 'Sweetness II' Harvesting and Apple Harvesting
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Clear 6°C / 43°FFriday night the rain turned to snow, like the forecast had predicted, but unlike the forecast said, the snow was still there in the morning. The hillside got 6 inches! Our backyard got about an inch. The sun came out around midday and the snow melted. I picked 8 lbs of apples in the afternoo...
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23 Sep 2012
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Starting to close up and planning for next year
Leeks Harvesting, beans Harvesting, Chard 'Bright Lights' Harvesting, Summer squash 'Yellow crookneck' Harv...Rainy 10°C / 50°FGetting ready for the end of the season. Picked almost all the zucchinis, all the beans and the 2 baby pumpkins. I ate all the ripe sugar snap peas and raspberries to keep me going! Applied about a half a yard of compost to the beds and turned the bins. Today I harvested 14lbs of Sangre reds a...
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09 Sep 2012Tomato "unknown cherry tomato" Moved
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We just barely escaped the frost damage last night. Frost on the roof, but not on the plants. They have another day to LIVE! Another clear night tonight… brought in all the tomatoes and covered the tenders. Edit: hanging baskets did not escape the frost. The front impatiens were hammered, ...Sunny 11°C / 52°F
