Hey all, I know we are busy with the usual summer stuff, I know I am. Garden is planted and growing, we've gotten quite a bit of the firewood split and stacked and so forth.

I just want to share a link to a company that sells reasonably priced vaccum seal bags:

http://www.sealersunlimited.com/

Yep, the freight is stupendous, but even so, its much cheaper than WalMart, Sportsmen's Warehouse, or Three Bears for bags. Via email, I learned that the company ships a lot to Alaska too, so I am looking forward to my first order arriving-probably Monday.

I go through a lot of bags between the salmon and garden, don't you?

Hey, thank you for that link! I do go thru a LOT of bags all year round but especially in the summer putting everything up that I can (um, that I don't can LOL).

Hope your garden is doing well!

I got my order and the bags work perfectly, woohoo!

As to the gardening? Well, you know how crappy a year its been! I have had blooms on my bush beans for over three weeks. No beans. Gah!

Hardly any ripe tomatoes in the greenhouse. Lots of cukes, peppers are doing okay (somehow?) and I have good cauliflower and cabbage. Several heads of broccoli simply rotten on top from the rain I presume. They became chicken food so it wasn't a total loss, but still.....bad year for gardening overall.

My broccoli never grew tall enough to do much this year.

Tomatoes have done nicely outside in the Fairbanks weather, and potatoes fine, but squash died off and leeks did terrible.

There's always next year I suppose.