Into August!! 8/3/13 progress report.

Well Anchorage has set a record for the number of consecutive 70 degree days.  And well the garden has been the better for it.

We might even get some okra.

Tomatoes are doing very well. As a matter of fact this is the best crop I've ever had in Alaska.

The green bean corner.  We have been eating tons for a while now.

The cucumbers are coming on strong now too.

These are Boston pickeling cucumbers and aren't suppose to get real big.  Here's the front runner right now.

Potatoes look happy.

And the berry picking has begun.

The peas have over topped their fences.

We have been getting tons of scarlet runner bean flowers but so far have only seeen a few beans set.

And our zuchs and squash have really been enjoying the sun.

Until next time...

Farm update 7/22/13

Sorry for the break.  Works been keeping my busy and I had taken a few photos a few weeks ago and never got around to publishing them.

So on my short break from work Christa and I managed to make it down to get some sockeye salmon and I scored some halibut from a friend in Petersburg.  So the freezer is full of fish protein.

In bed #1 the onions and peas are doing pretty good.  If we manage to keep the chickens and cats out of the bed.

Bed #2 is doing pretty outstanding, Carrots, beats and peas all going crazy.

Bed 3 has the lettuce mix, turnips, and a buch of other stuff all doing really well.

Potatoes are already flowering.

In the greenhouse everything is going gangbusters with all the sun and heat we've been having.  Our tomatoe corner has been pumping out some nice sized tomatoes. That's a first for me as our tomatoes never seem to do very good.

Our medley of 3 kinds of long beans. We've been eating on these guys for a while now.

And our cucumbers have been flowering for awhile, but I just now noticed a few female flowers starting to open.

Kale

The squash and zuchs out front are doing well with a bunch of fruit, and some cabbage coming up.  I doubt we'll see that come in, but what can you do.

I was having some fun with my iphone. Here are a couple panarama's around the yard.

Until next time.

Another week of great progress. 6/30/13

Finally cooled off here in Anchorage and we are finally suppose to get some rain, but we had another week of great weather.  Lets take a walk around the farm.

The zuch beds are doing good, the cabbage in the other bed not so much.  Christa thinks we have a vole problem.

Raspberries are coming along nicely.  Might not have as much yield as last year, but we still have a ton of berries in the freezer.

Taters are starting to leaf up nicely too.

Green beans are coming in nicely too.

Cuchs are coming along nice as well.

Nice shot of the green beans and wax beans

Our few tomato plants are doing really well and we already have some nice fruit coming in.

The lettuce, radishes and turnips are all doing great.

Beats and carrots doing well too.

And lastly the onion bed with our other pea fence.  Started to do some serious thinning.

We've already had a round of radishes come in and have been eating on the lettuce for a while now.  I have to say the last two summers up here in Alaska have been less than stellar, but this year we've had some great growing weather.  Until next time...

6/23/13 Crop progress.

Been real nice up here in Alaska the past month.  Record temperatures and sunny skies have been great to all our crops this spring.
I cleaned out my composter with a batch ready to go and no where to put it so I put a bunch in the raspberry bed and mounded the rest in the back, which the chickens had a lot of fun digging through.

Also pulled the first crop.  These French breakfast radishes are pretty delicious and like most radishes grow like weeds.

Got a few tomatoes coming in already.

And a few green beans too.  Ok lets take a walk around and see how the beds are doing.

And my mini bell is producing like gang busters.

Alright I'm off, but we'll have an update here in a week or so.