My garden is still under about 6 feet of snow! But it won’t be long now.
My grand plans of building a big new greenhouse this spring will need to be delayed until fall due to a big project I have going as soon as the snow melts, but my small, makeshift greenhouse will have to do. But we won’t have enough room for tomatoes and some of the other items we have hoped to plant, but that’s ok.
Our experiment with seeing how we like dehydrated products was successful, so this year we will be dehydrating about 1/3 of our potatoes and carrots and stashing away for lean times. We will be doing the same with blueberries and raspberries with a dehydrator. We’ve also figured out which veggies freeze well, such as kale and we will be growing enough to stash away veggies so that we can have them year round. With this, our carrots, potatoes and veggies will be in full production. With the long growing days in Alaska, we can probably get 4 or more cycles from some of the faster growing veggies and we will be taking full advantage of this now that we know what we like to eat of the frozen products.
I ordered a variety pack of heirloom seeds for our zone, zone 3. Some of the veggies are stuff we‘ve not attempted to grow before, so we will be experimenting with them to see what grows, and what we can freeze or dehydrate out of them. The idea is to have everything down to a science so we can really start adding to our long term and winter use storage with the goal of being as self sufficient as possible.
All in all, the wife and I are really excited for this summer as the 5 year investment in improving our rocky soil has paid off so that we can take advantage of our almost unlimited growing capacity from our 18 plus hours of daylight.
I love daffadils.
