• Growing Tips

    Tips for growing sweetpea flowers in Alaska

    Not Sweet Peas you eat, but Sweetpea flowers is what we’re talking about here. Do you have a someone Sweetpea flowers remind you of? You probably do if you know of these frilly fragrant beauties.  I fell in love with them further when I started growing them for market. Now on any given year we grow 8-10 varities. I have my go to’s but pick a few different ones to try each season just for fun.  There are a few tricks to getting quality bushy plants with long stems I’ve learned over the years and now want to share them with you.  Click on button for all the tips. 

  • All Dahlia'd Up,  Farm News

    Hello Pumpkin

    Pumpkins outside of flower stand

    Nothing says fall more then pumpkins. My facination for them began a few years ago after a few somewhat if’y attempts at growing them. What fun it’s been to have a successful crop this year, especially. After picking out my favorites and adding some to our “Fall Feels” table scape we had in September, I bought some in the house. My daughters experience was funny. Like many students this year she’s taking colledge in our basement online. On one a particulary day she said everytime she came up stairs for lunch, water or a snack they kept having babies. I have plump pumkins of all sizes placed perfectly here and there all over…