Backyard Gardening — Alaska Garden Adventures

Berries Are Made For Alaska

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.

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New Compost Bins

I thought these large plastic shipping totes would make perfect compost bins for recycling my Alaska Grow Buckets soilless grow mix.

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Folklore Garden Remedies - What Really Works?

Many garden practices are based in folklore and some remedies simply don't work…

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Moose Cage For My Currants

I finished a garden project that I have been planning for a long time and built a moose cage to protect my Black currant bushes…

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Paper Sacks For The Garden

I am glad that Wasilla banned plastic grocery bags... but what do you do with all of the paper sacks that you saved?

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Moose Cages For My Garden

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…

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May Planting Update

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…

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Summer Weather in Wasilla

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…

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Planning Ahead To Extend The Season

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…

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Another Alaska Garden Season Ends

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…

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That's what it's all about...

Vegan Burgers for supper tonight with fresh sliced home grown tomato and garden lettuce…

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July 26 Garden Update

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…

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I told you so...

Sometime last night a neighborhood moose stopped by and got my cabbage, snap peas, chard, some lettuce, and kale…

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Hoop Tunnel Snap Clamps

I am a big believer in using hoop tunnels or a simple hoop greenhouse made out of PVC pipe or plastic electrical conduit covered with plastic film…

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2010 Berry Season in Wasilla

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…

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BACKYARD GARDENING UP NORTH

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.

I thought these large plastic shipping totes would make perfect compost bins for recycling my Alaska Grow Buckets soilless grow mix.

Many garden practices are based in folklore and some remedies simply don't work…

I finished a garden project that I have been planning for a long time and built a moose cage to protect my Black currant bushes…

I am glad that Wasilla banned plastic grocery bags... but what do you do with all of the paper sacks that you saved?

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…

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…

Vegan Burgers for supper tonight with fresh sliced home grown tomato and garden lettuce…

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…

Sometime last night a neighborhood moose stopped by and got my cabbage, snap peas, chard, some lettuce, and kale…

I am a big believer in using hoop tunnels or a simple hoop greenhouse made out of PVC pipe or plastic electrical conduit covered with plastic film…

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…