Dinner stuff: a beet, mint, potatoes, smoked and frozen Copper River Sockeye salmon
Closeup of the rather large beet
Stupice tomatoes. We've already eaten about 40 of them.
Purple Hungarian peppers
The bounty: broccoli, radishes. beets, carrots and zucchini
Two five-foot-tall chard plants
Corn starting to mature
A purple poppy
Tiny green beans. They need more sun.
five-foot-tall dill plants
Potato flowers
A wheel barrow full of future compost
A lilly flower amidst other flowers from Judy's rock garden border
13 comments:
Bless me father for I have sinned - I have coveted another man's garden.
heh. You are forgiven.
Can't believe how good this year's garden is.
I would have to agree with your first commenter Phil... I am both envious and jealous... AND HUNGRY now. You must have 2 green thumbs.. not 1.
About your Brave New Films clip that you posted. You might want to correct/adjust the Title. Carly ' Phony-rina' is actually running for the Senate seat, against Boxer. Meg Whitman is in the Governors race. Easy to confuse these GOP Millionaire women who suddenly want to become politicians.... even though one has not even voted for over 28 years. When they see Quitter Sarah as an example... and see how LOW the bar has been set they say... " I can do... THAT ? "
add me to the list echoing akbright's words
*sigh* you have a bountiful garden dood
wow great looking garden! I have wandered over to your blog from gryphen's place a few times, didn't know you were a big gardener. I live for it. do you go the organic route?
emrysa,
Organic. We use a lot of home-made compost, some commercial organic composted manure, and a fertilizer produced by Botanicare, called Pure Blend.
thanks for not poisoning the planet!! I garden organically too. I've got another question which may seem strange, but it's the biggest issue I deal with so I am curious - do you have fungus problems in alaska? I garden in georgia and where I am at the moment has a lot of fungus in the soil. I've had a few tomato plants succumb to fusarium already this season. curious about fungus since you are in a completely different climate.
Please tell us you have a greenhouse where you started all of this in say, February. And professional help. My garden zone and growing season is probably very similar to yours. Garden looks like yours must have in May. (Hanging head and vowing to get head start next season, remembering the tortoise and the hare, or was it the ant and the grasshopper?) You have beets now!
nancydrew,
All our plants are from my own starts. I began starts in February, in a south-facing window in our bedroom.
The big beets are transplants from greenhouse starts in April.
The pepper plants will winter indoors.
emrysa,
We have mold problems on green beans if they get too wet. We get small slugs in lettuce and cabbage. We can get aphids or mites in the peppers and basil in the greenhouse, but I use a lot of ladybugs.
The tomatoes have never suffered an attack by bug or mold or whatever.
So far, the moose have stayed away in the summer. At our old house both moose and bears would sometimes wreck the garden.
thanks for your response, Phil. glad to hear that fungus hasn't taken over every corner of the world, lol (seriously, the thought kinda scares me...)
Gwen would love to come over and chat with you and get some tips!
Dang moose anyway!
The little guys actually walk between the row of potatos, like they care!
It is just best I start a moose farm...
I'm just venting.
Nice crop. Mine as been ate up, stomp up and generally messed up.
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