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Options to consider to keep garden moose-free

My nose is running like a river and glowing as red as Rudolph's as I write. What is it about freeze-up and the end of outdoor gardening that lets one's immune system and defense mechanisms down?

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Time to turn your thoughts to house plants

Nothing like frozen ground to make you realize the time to garden indoors for a while has arrived. Even the dog doesn't want to go out this time of year.

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Act today or miss out

For those of you who have been waiting to find out if Bob Boyer will be selling his wonderful greenhouse apples again -- he is -- but only from 1-5 p.m. today.

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Chase the winter gloom with holiday blooms

Ah, winter settles in. Now how about getting those special, indoor plants to perform while we wait for the ground to thaw next spring?

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Alaska plant pioneers receive lifetime award

The Anchorage Chapter of the Alaska Master Gardeners gave out their first ever Lifetime Achievement Award to Verna and Frank Pratt on Monday night.

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Lighting up is a must if you want to be a winter gardener

Nothing like a few nights in the 30s to get the gardener's attention. This really is the last call to action before the long, big freeze. Simply put, take care of those faucets, get the mulches down and put away those hoses.

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Late-season delights

A gardener's conundrum: When faced with impending ice and snow, what is one to do when garden flowers are still in bloom?

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Finish yard preparations before Old Man Winter arrives

It is still warm after all these months. How could this be so? Denver? Snowed out. Chicago environs? Snow and temperatures in the teens. Clearly, this is not normal and we should not expect it to last.

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Plant garlic now for spring flowers and an August crop

It seems to me the really hard frosts, the ones that tell you this is going to be a long winter and it is just beginning, are still a ways off. I am guessing the ground won't freeze for up to a month and the chances of that frost getting down very deep, quickly, seem slim.

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Spotting maples

Does anyone remember a better fall season? It seems like it's going on and on and some trees haven't even begun to turn yet. Take a drive before the winds or killing frosts destroy the view.

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Time to get ready for long winter nap

Preparation for the winter and next year's growing season is the theme today.

College students, volunteers harvest fruits of their labor

In drizzling rain, Mat-Su College organic gardening class members and volunteers harvested the rest of what, for some, was their first garden.

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Fall means berries, bright leaves and garden chores

The timing was perfect for a berry picking expedition to the Kenai Peninsula last Friday. Word from area friends was that the lingonberries -- low bush cranberries -- were ready, and so were we.

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Tell your spouse it's better to not to rake

The loyal reader knows I have a long and deep history with leaves. I grew up on a tree-filled "Gentleman's estate." My dad, who I suppose was the "gentleman," believed, as did everyone else in his day, that leaves had to be raked up.

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What's up, doc?

So here I go, la-de-da, to pull carrots and discover some of them have gone to flower! That's never happened to me before. Has anyone else found the same this summer?

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