Life in Tee Harbor, Alaska

Beautiful Day for Gardening

The weather today was outstanding - sunny and WARM  :o)  And I feel like I got alot accomplished. 

I finished planting the beet seeds - about 1000 of those little suckers.  Hope they produce well for us.  Then I moved on to the 2 smaller raised beds (2.5' x 5') - added sandy soil and fertilizer and planted carrot seeds.  It is so hard to get those spaced right.  I know you can buy seeds strips, but that is more expensive.  So in a month or so I will be out there pulling hundreds of little guys so the rest will have room to grow big.  Carrot tops are really good in stir fry or fried rice.  Next, I had another small raised bed that I had planted rhubarb in a couple years ago.  Well, they needed to move somewhere else so I could use the box for other veggies.  I weeded out an area for them in the side yard - not a full sun area, but it does get some sun.  Added fertilizer and sandy soil to loosen things up a bit.  Dug up the rhubarb and divided the clumps.  Boy some of those roots were huge - like 14" long and 1 to 2" around!  I hope they like their new home.  I have some extra starts, so I need to decide where those should go.

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3:23 AM, Monday, May 12, 2008 .. Posted by glenda

Wow on your rubarb. I have always wanted to grow some and i have tried but for some reason I kill it every time.. Not sure why...
On your seeds you can make homemade seed strips out of newspaper.. I know i saw it someone on the internet. I would o a search for homemade seeds strips. It might be worth the time...
God bless
glenda