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The 2013 Galena garden journal


Sunday 10 February 2013

What a delight updating the vegetable list. It would be nice to someday get to the flower and indoor plant list, but it's also a delight having a goal in front of me. I'm sitting here in the office, looking at the veggie seeds in their box, the herbal seeds on the shelf, and the grow lights waiting for seedlings. I'm really looking forward to this growing year.

I've learned something from local master gardener Sandy Scotten. She has a notebook out in her garden to take notes and record what has happened in her garden. That's where I'm headed this year. Because of the high-intensity gardening in these parts, where we literally stuff a year's worth of growth into three hectic months, it isn't reasonable to expect that I'll have time at the end of the day to record things here daily. I can, however, walk the rows and record the times, dates, and observations of what I see at the moment, then relax as the snow falls and the temperature drops.

That would leave these pages for more artistic endeavors, at least in the summer. I have purchased a beautiful little photo gallery software to show off my plantings throughout the year. I can highlight the cool stuff, and not sweat the more research-oriented stuff. And I've been struggling for years with the concept of adequete record-keeping, something that notebook with help me with.

The planting starts soon! Quyana cakneq agayun!

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The 2011 garden journal

The 2012 garden journal


Resouces

UAF Cooperative Extension
        Service

Extension Service
        publications

Alaska Master Gardeners

TalkDirt blog from the
        Anchorage Daily News

Alaska Gardening Guide,
        Vol. 1
by Ann Roberts

Alaska Botanical Garden

Gardening in the Cabbage
        Patch
by Pat Babcock

Jeff Lowenfels' column in the
        Anchorage Daily News

Cold Climate Gardening


Subarctic gardeners

Alaska

Last Frontier blog

Christine B's blog about her Anchorage garden

Woodside Gardens

Jamie's Big Lake garden

Tundra Garden

Barrow garden maintained by Anne Jensen. Not a joke!

Sitka Gardening

Beautiful Southeast site

Suburban Farmstead

Roy's valley venture, with bees, too

Wasilla Adventures

Self-described transplants check it out up north

98% Organic in Alaska

Willowy woman Faith Kolean goes organic, mostly

Dirt Divas

Sally Koppenberg's blogspot from Palmer

Anchorage Gardening Tips

Gail Heineman's detailed website

Life on the Last Frontier

Dedicated to self-sufficiency

Alaska Bounty

Dillingham agriculturalists


Canada

Zone One Garden

Gardenista's very impressive efforts in La Ronge, Sasketchwan

Hank's Gardening Pics

A garden grows in Whitehorse

Gardening in Newfoundland

A flower and veggie patch amid the moss and fog

Kate Smudges

A Sasketchwan gardener in Regina.

Gardening Adventures from the North

Breanne's zone 3B garden in northern British Columbia

Gardenerd's Glossary

From Thunder Bay


Norway

Magnar's Arctic Alpines and Perennials

A wonderful subarctic garden in Tromso

Det lille huset i skogen

From Tromso, thankfully with pictures


Finland

quu's garden

Lovely flowers thankfully named in Latin

My Eden

Min's garden in Jakobstad, Finland


Sweden

Tradgards Flow

Northern Swedish gardening

The Northern Lights Garden

The auroral gardening experience

North of Sweden

Many beautiful photos with lots of umlauts


Iceland

Lystigarður Akureyrar

The botanical garden in Akureyi, which claims the northernmost botantical garden on Earth. A plant list and seeds are available.