Mary - To look at your growing season photos, I'd have never guessed you lived in Alaska! What you have done is amazing and inspiring! I am a fan of raised beds as well. I have the opposite issue as my yard is sandy and often dry & hot with a long growing season (using the right plants of course!). Always fun to figure out what grows well in a particular area. Congrats on your apple tree!

I wish I had room for more trees but the back yard is full and the front yard would only feed moose.

Mary, you have inspired me on the raised bed for my veggie garden. I enjoyed your story. Mike

Mary, You have a really beautiful garden. Not just functional but beautiful as well.

Ha Mike. How will you have time for a raised bed vegie garden when you have all those gorgeous daylilies plus seedlings plus plus But Thanks anyway.

That was sort of what I figured, Holly. Flowers are nice but I wanted to grow fresh vegies and move closer to an organic garden in general. I even volunteer at the local botanical garden (as office help) and am looking forward to this summer's workshops.

Your local botanical garden is on our must see list.

Great. They have done a wonderful job on it. Lots of interesting hardscape in addition to plants everywhere.