Life in Tee Harbor, Alaska

Spring Planting

I consulted my Gardening in Southeast Alaska book and one of the chapters says to plant these vegetables in the garden as soon as the soil can be worked:  peas, radishes, turnips, water cress, spinach, onion sets, leaf lettuce and potatoes.  Saturday I cleaned up a couple of my raised beds in the garden to get them ready for planting and yesterday I went out and planted some peas.  I just did two rows and will do two more in a couple weeks.  I have never planted this early - last year I planted the peas at the end of May!  More because of time than weather I think.  So I am anxious to see if the book is right...

I'm doing a little rearranging in the garden.  I have some rhubarb that I plopped in a raised bed that needs to be moved...but I haven't decided the best spot yet.  I also have raspberries coming up in another rhubarb patch, so I'll have to either move the rhubarb or the raspberries...  I would like to expand the raspberry patch, but I might wait until the chicken run is built and plant them around the fence. 

Lots to do and I have today off, but it has decided to snow a little...  So I guess I'll be doing inside projects today!