The sun goes away half the year. Everybody does something to extend the two month growing season, especially starting indoors and setting out the plants after the danger of frost is past, which might be 15 May if you are lucky. Many have seeds sprouting now in every available indoors space, like living in the greenhouse.
Longterm Food Storage Part 1
Longterm Food Storage part 2
Longterm Food Storage part 3
I lived in Palmer for a couple of years. Never in my life have I seen such monstrous cabbages. The Matanuska Valley is a gardener’s heaven.......for a very brief time anyway.
Come the first week in January, I am ready to play in the dirt, but it is too cold so figured ot how to do it indoors.
We had our only real snow 10 days ago, snowed like crazy all morning and an inch of it stuck.
The old timers told me to always expect a freeze in Arizona, the month that Easter falls in and 38 years of life here, has proven them right.
It also rains on July 4th week.
See if you can find this book on greenhouses, it is for poor people to grow food in, not the fancy ones we used in California to grow Orchids in, of course they would grow in it.
It is the only thing that President Carter did right, there was a fund in the beginning to build the greenhouses for people, but my husband built mine.
The food and heat producing Solar Greenhouse
Design construction operation
By:
Rick Fisher and Bill Yanda
ISBN 0-912528-12-5
1976 & 1977
Published by:
John Muir Publications
PO Box 613
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
And it is still for sale, and resale: [you may be able to read it on line.]