Category: My Garden

This tree is hoping for a bit of sun in through the window. There is a maple tree and two bay laurels, which I got a few months ago via the internet. I don’t want to subject these baby trees to the unending damp of an outdoor life in Southeast Alaska just yet – I have noticed that exotic saplings seem have a hard time with that aspect of the local climate, moreso than issues with the lower temperatures or lack of direct sun. Too many of my saplings have died of “too much moisture” – mostly due to concomitant mold / fungus, I suspect.

[daily log: walking, 2.5km;]

This tree is surrounded by a protective tree-cage that I implemented. It’s the same oak as I posted the other day, which I am hoping to save from the malicious tree-eaters roaming our forest.

[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 5km]

This tree in the foreground is a young oak tree I was trying to grow. It was doing well. It has been outdoors all summer, it had lots of leaves. I planted it in the ground about 5 weeks ago. Last night, some forest beast (I’m assuming a deer) came along and ate all its leaves, leaving only a few. I’m not sure it can survive this.

[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree saw a cloud grabbing a mountain.

My garden made some small carrots.

[daily log: walking, 7km; dogwalking, 3km; c104064058084s]

This tree is more of an ambitious shrub: it’s a rhododendron bush that arrived in the mail yesterday. I planted it in a planter bucket in the greenhouse, for now. I’d like to have a rhododendron on my lot – I know it’s possible, since many other people have lots of rhododendrons planted. We shall see. I’m batting less than 500 on trees and shrubs in general.

[daily log: walking, 7km; retailing, 8.5hr; c096064061084s]

This tree is living on the edge.

My garden yielded a small carrot. It tasted pretty good though.

[daily log: walking, 2km; c107065058084s]

This tree had been presumed dead – for the last 6 months. It arrived from the live tree order service I use with only one leaf, which it promptly lost. So I left it in its bucket with its equally dead peers, lined up in a “failed tree” graveyard on the western side of the greenhouse. And this morning, I noticed this dead tree had put out two leaves. Interesting!

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 7hr; c106058062085s]

This tree (these three trees) is (are) dead – they are three exotic trees I tried to grow, but I was unwise and let them experience a hard frost last month.

I have other exotic trees that are less dead, including a coast redwood, a dawn redwood, an oak, a flowering cherry, and two douglas fir.

[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km; c108059060084s]

This tree had a notch cut in it 10 days ago, but only today did I complete my project to end its life.

I cut some of it into rounds for future burning.

I also went and planted some leeks in my greenhouse garden. Last time I planted leeks they didn’t do that well, but I had some seeds so I decided to try. So far the only thing growing well this year is some carrots.

[daily log: walking, 8km; dogwalking, 4km; c115057066084s]

This tree glowered back at the clouds.

I did work in my greenhouse today. I rearranged a lot of dirt, removed a lot of winter-killed plant matter, and planted small beds of lettuce, radishes and green onions. The sun came out briefly, and since it’s now making it over the ridge to the south, the greenhouse felt its warmth and warmed up just a little bit.

[daily log: walking, 2km]

This tree is a palm tree – in seed form. It’s a cold-resistant and shade-resistant variety of palm from China, and they have survived in England and Vancouver Island, so it has a chance of surviving here. So I’m going to try to germinate it and plant it. Because Rockpit needs a palm tree.

[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree was there as the greenhouse slowly tried to become an igloo.

[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]

This tree was foregrounded by part of my treehouse-in-progress.

Meanwhile, I found a few vegetables in my mold-garden (aka greenhouse).

[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 7hr]

This tree is not very photogenic, frankly.

On the other hand, this tomato in my greenhouse is more photogenic.

[daily log: walking, 2km]

This tree is out there.

My garden has been carroting.

[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]

This tree is the same tree as tree #601, which is the same tree as tree #237. I planted (transplanted) it two years ago. It’s still alive, but not really thriving. Perhaps this is a metaphor for something.

[daily log: walking, 2km]

This tree is the maple tree I’m trying to grow, in the kitchen window. It’s put out some new leaves, which gives me some small optimism.

[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]

This tree is growing quickly right by my greenhouse’s door.

Meanwhile, inside the greenhouse I found a cucumber.

[daily log: walking, 1.5km]