One Alaskans greenhouse

[catjac1975]

Things are moving along well in here, been eating cukes, beans & celery Since mid may! Looks like Summer squash will be another 6ft. Bush this year. Using mule tape; i tie these up with gentle tension and they grow up against the ceiling; some achieving 6ft. Grown on the ground and outside, i’ve never had a Summer squash plant be over 30 inches long and they never made branches. In here they go crazy and some will make 3-4 branches which really makes management challenging.

Fantastic!

 

[heirloomgal]

Things are moving along well in here, been eating cukes, beans & celery Since mid may! Looks like Summer squash will be another 6ft. Bush this year. Using mule tape; i tie these up with gentle tension and they grow up against the ceiling; some achieving 6ft. Grown on the ground and outside, i’ve never had a Summer squash plant be over 30 inches long and they never made branches. In here they go crazy and some will make 3-4 branches which really makes management challenging.

Wow!

 

[Alasgun]

On the way home from Church this evening; the Mountains across the inlet were particularly showey!
We are over 19 1/2 hours of daylight now and still gaining over 2 min a day. In a couple weeks the pendulum will stop and start swinging the other way and before you know it it’ll be over. we’re most fond of this time of year!

 

[Alasgun]

We had the first ripe tomato today, one of the striped germans. It’s new to us but shows a lot of promise.

 

[catjac1975]

On the way home from Church this evening; the Mountains across the inlet were particularly showey!
We are over 19 1/2 hours of daylight now and still gaining over 2 min a day. In a couple weeks the pendulum will stop and start swinging the other way and before you know it it’ll be over. we’re most fond of this time of year!

What on earth would I do with 18 1/2 hours of daylight? Early gardening......nap....late gardening. Oh wait I do that now. So maybe garden, nap, garden nap, garden.

 

[ducks4you]

Are you ready for a full day of no sunset yet?!?!?
I understand that Alaskan's vegetables grow the size of irradiated varieties.
Truth, or fiction?!?!?

 

[Alasgun]

@ducks4you, we’re at that time of year you can set outside and read a news paper ALL NIGHT LONG without additional light. Tie on a fish hook; no problem etc. Over the years i’ve grown fond of our really long twilight periods; both morning and evening. I overhauled a steam turbine in Hawaii one time; was there a week and boom; the sun went down at 7:00 and it was dark, plum dark. The irony is; this job was in February and we already had more daylight than that!

Im not to familiar with any of the artificial plant enhancement methods but i can tell you most stuff really likes our long days.

some folks really go in for the BIG vegetable competition at our state fair each year; pumpkins approaching a ton, cabbages over 100 lbs etc.
We’re on the other end of the spectrum, square ft gardeners. I have people wanting to give me this or that start each spring and i have to politely decline, telling them all the space is taken and i don’t have any room for experiments. Other than one experimental tomato each year it’s the same variety’s year after year.

 

[Alasgun]

While choring this morning i noticed this lateral branch with a cuke at every node; 7 total! I seriously doubt they will all make fruit but we’ll see. If not; that’s ok too; we got em running out our ears right now.

 

[heirloomgal]

Years ago, in a health facility I worked in, we used to eat cucumbers cooked. Radishes too, with a wee bit of the green stem left on to retain the red colour in the skin.. I remember them being very yummy. We also used to make a salad with cucumber called 'raita', which was basically cucumber grated on a box grater, mixed with sour cream, toasted mustard seeds and a bit of salt and sugar. Maybe some dill. I still make it I like it so much.

 

[Alasgun]

@heirloomgal , thats interesting about the cooked cukes; i’ll have to try that! I can easily see them in a stir fry.
neither of us are radish fans but the last ones we grew we steamed like turnips and the flavor was a we bit better than the turnip.
We certainly enjoy all the garden produce in season but the lowly Cucumber must be our favorite‘ especially after eating store bought all winter. Most years i give it a break and dont have anything going in the house till January. This year i’m going to move a couple Unagi cukes up stairs and try my hand at growing them indoors?

I been noticing your stuff’s looking especially nice this year; hope that continues for you thruout the season. Maybe you can break that Bear to drive and hook him up to a wagon; you never know, he could be useful.
I’ve seen several stories from up here where folks have “civilized“ bear cubs and moose calves out in the bush. Some of the stories have a good ending