Nice weather in early May gave me an opportunity to put up a fence around the garden, and to get the garden planted later in the month.
The hot wire fence starts and ends at a gate I built, using trees to hold both the hot wire as well as the gate. Cementing posts in place in Alaska is problematic, since the winter frost level is more than 4 feet deep, which would push the concrete back out of the ground. So instead, I anchored the hinged post to a nearby tree to stabilize the gate frame, and built a small box to house the charger. Seems to work well.
A warm week the first week of May gave me the opportunity to plant the potatoes.
We added a few in-ground beds this year. Here, Grayson adds some compost to the beds.
We filled up each raised bed with onions, carrots and beets, respectively.
You can see the new in-ground beds in the background of this pic.
This week, I added some straw mulch, and am now just waiting for the garden to sprout. This year we planted cabbage, spinach, kale, Swiss chard, broccoli, onions, cucumbers, pumpkins, Brussel sprouts, peas, beans and lettuce in the in-ground beds. The asparagus and chives beds are doing good as well.
Tomatoes and peppers are in the greenhouse.
Potatoes have sprouted, but nothing else yet. These are from our own seed potatoes from last year's harvest.
Down by the creek, these fiddlehead ferns are emerging from their winter slumber.
The creek, thawed and running strong.
A burl on a tree I cross on my morning walks.
Ducks paddle across Dino's old swimming hole.
A Great Horned Owl, watching the ducks closely on the water.
The moose hit this area hard over the winter, scraping the bark off the trees with their teeth.
A young bull moose I ran across on a recent walk.
The compost bin did well, and we had enough compost to spread over all the garden beds.
A video of moose crossing the hayflats.
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