Gardening in Alaska

 I hope this is the first of many posts about my garden!  One of the things I was most excited about moving out of base housing and into a house with a yard was being able to have a garden.  And then I thought about it.... I am moving to Alaska, what the heck grows in Alaska??  I researched it a little online and was determined to have a garden here.  I registered for a Organic Gardening class at the community college.  And Reese built me two raised beds.  They have PVC pipe hoops over them which we attached plastic sheeting to.  This way I was able to plant things sooner because the plastic creates a greenhouse type environment and it's a lot warmer in there.

 Radishes have been the first thing that we've harvested.  It was very exciting... mostly for me.  I planted spinach, kale, broccoli, carrots, radishes, green onions, lettuce, zucchini, pumpkins and butternut squash.  The winter squash are questionable whether they will do anything because of the short growing season here.  But everything else should do great, we've had couple salads with the lettuce. The kale is doing awesome and I think it's ready to pick some of it for kale chips!!  If you've never had kale chips, you need to!  Recipe to come!