Yikes, I'm looking around this cabin and I just don't see where I am going to put all these flats of seeds I want to start early. I have a very big list and quite a few things that need to start a bit early. So I'm going to have to either a. figure out where to stack stuff inside and then figure out how to get light to them which I just can;t see happening. or b. Build the greenhouse a little early and get a heat source for it and use that space....yep that sounds like the answer to me. In our zone which is F for freaking cold we are advised not to put a start in the garden until after June 1st and by the end of August its freezing at night so that gives me 75 days of growing time outside. If I add a greenhouse to this equation that adds another 40 days so it will make up for the loss in time. Not to mention we have those long Alaskan summers with 22 hours of daylight at the apex. This means I am going to be one busy little mother trucker getting the garden in, tended and finally harvested and in the freezer or canned. I'm going to be doing a whole lot of work and I figure I am going to need a hired hand or two at least in the beginning and ending stages.
Along about the time we are done harvesting and putting away the goodness of the garden it will be hunting season and also butchering time for the steers and pigs. The fowl will be harvested by the end of September.
By October I hope to be relaxing with a freezer full that will last most of the winter. As you can see gardening in Alaska offers one a few challenges but in the end if you perservere you will reap great rewards.
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