One of the first things I noticed when I moved to Alaska, in 1991, was the abundance of berries available. Homegrown, commercially grown, and wild berries were everywhere.
Moose can be a real bad garden pest in Alaska and you can find moose anywhere. It doesn’t matter if you live in the city or rural countryside. So I am building hoop cages over my raised beds…
Thank goodness for our long Alaska summer daylight as I am able to comfortably work in my garden past 10 PM with 17 hours of sun in late May and over 20 hours by late June…
Once again a moose paid a visit to my garden the other night just when I was going to bed. Luckily I caught the young bull moose in the act and quickly grabbed a string of firecrackers to scare him off. The sad fact is that once he has learned where to find tasty fresh vegetable to eat - he will return…
Now is the time to plan and build garden projects such as new raised beds, grow frames, hoop tunnels, etc for extending the growing season later this year or early next Spring…
I picked the last of the tomatoes both ripe and green. It looks like I may make another batch of green tomato chutney. The red ones are very ripe and probably won't keep so they may go into a batch of chili…
Root maggots ruined my onions and radish crops and all plants had to be removed and destroyed. I will not plant onions in the same bed next year and I will be sure to follow the practice of using a Reemay floating row cover to prevent the adult flies from laying eggs…
We finally had enough rain free days in August to get out and pick berries. I added a second raspberry bed and the new plants produced a few berries, but they will do much better next year…
