You Reap What You Sow.....

Some serious lettuce growing in our garden

Jon tilled the garden a good six times, if not more

It has been a labor of love on our garden this year. Tilling and fertilizing and spreading lime and tilling some more. Pulling sticks and rocks and weeds..... building three raised garden beds and planting a strawberry garden. A week of love dedicated to the dirt in our yard.

This is the second year we have attempted a garden, last year we planted one but it was later in the summer. We got a pretty good harvest of broccoli, lettuce and potatoes. Not a single strawberry plant grew so I got some real starters out of Anchorage. Kiley just ate a fresh strawberry out of our garden today. We are trying some new things with covering our raised beds with plastic with hopes that it will trap the ficklel Alaska heat and speed up the growing process.

This year it was a lot easier to put the garden in with the help of the beautiful red rototiller (aka Betty) from GB and Papa Paul for Jon's birthday. Thank you! Kiley was a great digger and helped me plant potatoes and lettuce, Kalin decided that sowing onions and carrots were more her style. Overall we planted lettuce, broccoli, radishes, carrots, onions and potatoes.


We're crossing our fingers that all this love will produce some serious vegetables. We will reap what we sow!

Carrots, radishes, potatoes and onions are planted in the raised beds.

Kalin likes to run between the rows in bare feet!