Recent content by Alasgun

Today’s a “tweener” around here. Day after my birthday and day before my anniversary! That would be our 50th anniversary to boot!🥳 Im not much of a football guy; watching big guys line up; run into each other, go “Ugh” and fall down then repeat all afternoon never got my interest. However...

Well, here’s the thing. About 10 years ago while Alaska was considering legalizing pot and relaxing restrictions on small growers; our State Fair invited in some guest speakers. I assume these folks task was to sway public sentiment in their direction before the vote. I found myself at a booth...

My amendment list has settled down the last couple years and what you see here goes on everything i grow. Every 3x12 bed gets a 2 gallon bucket and Onions and Potatoes get 2- 2gallon buckets! This year im adding the ground Comfrey and each bed will get a measured 2lbs along with the other stuff...

Im pretty structured, the only changes are when i tweek starting dates. Locations change due to rotation but the varieties have mostly been the same for 8 years! I keep this schedule on my tablet for easy referral from year to year, plan once then be lazy for years to come.😳 2026 seed starting...

That would have been about a week before i turned 8 but i still came to appreciate the music of those early bands, and still do! So much so that i named my 55gal compost tea brewer “the Big Bopper” due to the rhythmic beat it emits when brewing a batch. Powered by a large regenerative blower...

Cattle panels, i use them for everything including trellis but also for fencing, and on end they make a great mini greenhouse. In the spring i’ll butt a couple up against the greenhouse and cover it with poly. With some saw horses to hold up some long boards it becomes a “hardening off” shelter...

Ive grown them on a trellis before however it takes a little doing. The vines dont make tendrils that would help them “hold on” so some tying and weaving was necessary to keep them up. The fruit was easily suspended in panty hose legs or other loose stretchy netting, “Hammock style”. But like...

We’re rolling now! I gave this pot of Chocolate mint a “bowl cut” 3 weeks ago where i trimmed everything from the pot rim out, both to the top and down the side and it looks like i should do it again. The output of the ExHale bag is increasing and I'm not sure what effect it had on these 3...

This ole girl and her twin calves from last year have been hanging out on the property for the last week or so. Today i watched her heading around the back of the house so i went to a back bedroom and “intercepted her” just as she was looking in my bedroom window. 10 pictures later i pecked on...

The “ExHale” co2 bag showed up today and i hung it and it’s monitor in the cuke hootch. After activation it should take a week or so to reach it’s maximum output and continue there for 6 months. The goal is 1300ppm. Time will tell? About the time i start feeling like a real “space cowboy” i...

They respond to a 12ga pretty well.

40 here today! And a couple young Moose enjoying a break! Mike

Well heck; i’ll just throw in here that i invented a word one time! “Scrotium-mutinate” ; i tell people, when you roll a can, jar or package over in the grocery store to read the ingredients; all them words you can’t pronounce are “scrotium-mutinate”. And yes; im fully aware, im not the...

My little “seed starting and production laboratory” 🤓will be kicking off real soon now! Updated my seed start time sheet and got one taped up for referance. Then on the top shelf; sitting on the heat mat is the start of a Lacto bacillus serum culture which when done will see several uses...

I know better than to gloat over others in situations like a lot of you are seeing “down in America”. From time to time i do like to roll out my “sorry you live in such a hostile environment line”. We were talking about this yesterday, with family/friends thru-out we get plenty of “first hand”...