Thanks Horsehoe. Indeed to buy seed potatoes runs about $15 per bag of 10-12#. The russets I can practically buy downtown for that and save the effort. But I like to grow stuff and it looks so cool in my boxes, with my jams and jellies, and frozen salmon and vegies. And the occasional moose or elk we trade the salmon for. Very citified farmers we are.
Sheesh. And I thought you guys had warm weather. Might as well stay here. It's 20F, little if any wind, and clear blue skies. Course it is supposed to dump into single digits tonight.
I would agree with you about our long days but I think that applies more to the interior where there days (and nights) are longer, they are dry and the temps can (and do) get up to the 80's and 90's. I loved those summer. You really form an appreciation for that kind of weather after months of dark, ice fog, below -25 temps (during the day no less). And those especially wonderful days of -45 to -55. Not so many of those any more but occasionally they do occur. Which is why we live in Anchorage now. Plus my MIL's garden is raided by moose and beaver from the river (Chena) at the end of her property. I would just put up and electrical fence and be done with it. Course the river comes up in the spring and ice floes can get pushed up on the land also. So you would have to put the fences maybe 20-30' up the slope. She faces south so it is beyond wonderful for a garden.
