Winter is coming
Six more weeks till Winter. Or so the story goes told by Alaskan Natives and sourdoughs alike. When the fireweed has bloomed all the way to the top, we have six more weeks till the snow flies. So far this break up and then into summer, we’ve had some successes….and some failures. That’s pretty typical though. The garden is doing well but could be doing better thanks to the late start because of our vacation in the lower 48. That is a killer here since our growing season is so short. We got to harvest a large bunch of garlic scapes earlier this week. Yes indeed, garlic scapes. SUCCESS! The garlic survived the winter! We’ll have garlic later this summer to harvest. We’re about 2 days away from harvesting our first zucchini and summer squash of the season. Our kale and broccoli rabe this year barely sprouted due to the fact that we got a late start on it. We should have direct sowed the seeds in May, however in May we were racing aga