Don’t plant mayday trees. Don’t even let your existing ones remain.
The invasive trees are bad for moose and bad for streams. There are no good excuses for leaving them in the ground — let alone planting new ones.
Gardening
Gardening catchphrases are fine, but they have their limitations
Catchphrases contain useful information — to a point. But serious gardeners understand the more complicated truths behind them.
Now's the best time to get rid of the invasive plants in your yard and garden
Remove them before they flower and go to seed.
Here's how to make the most of the early gardening season
Water your plants with warm water, tackle dandelions and horsetail sooner rather than later — and don't wait too long to plant.
Here's why you need to test your soil
Is your garden's soil missing an element your flowers or vegetables need? There's an easy way to find out.
Color fills Anchorage greenhouses as planting season begins
Anchorage Parks and Recreation prepares 72,000 plants for beds around the city.
Here's how to deal with moss growing in your Alaska lawn
A. Sell your home and move Outside. Or, B. Learn to love it.
Community composting in Anchorage is back - and bigger than before
The "take a bucket, leave a bucket" composting program is expanding to 1,000 participants this year.
Want a fabulous Alaska lawn? Here are 3 things to do now — and a few don'ts
Do water your lawn. Don't thatch it.
Forget about frost for a second. Let's talk soil temperature
Last frost dates can be important, but so are soil temperatures. Here's how to take some basic measurements—and use them to your garden's advantage.
With a little help, potted plants can benefit from food webs in soil
Do you need new soil for containers every year? No — provided you are an organic soil food webbie.
An Anchorage couple first fell for mushrooms. Then they fell for each other.
Allison Dunbar and Gabriel DeGange's relationship led them to start Far North Fungi, one of Anchorage's first mushroom-growing operations.
Now is a great time of year to get your kids into gardening
Jeff Lowenfels: Marigolds and dahlias have bigger seeds -- perfect for children to work with.
Try to ignore the thawing dog poop and stay off your lawn for now
Your lawn is probably emerging, if it hasn't already, from under the snow. Resist the urge to start working on it right away. If you must do something, tune up your mower instead.
How to make spring come early
Plant arugula (and other cold-tolerant greens). Do it now.
For Alaska gardeners, increasing daylight is about to reach an important milestone
This weekend is the first with enough hours of daylight to plant without using supplemental lights.
This is the best time of year for Alaska gardeners to prune
In general, late winter is the best time for Alaska gardeners to cut back old or unwanted growth.
Alaska gardeners, meet the achocha
The achocha — also known as caihua — is a South American relative of cucumbers and squash that shows promise for cold-weather gardens.
Want begonias (or gladiolas, dahlias, sweet peas) this season? Do this now
Many of Alaska's most coveted flowers take a dozen or more weeks to flower. Get them started now.
It's not too early to start planning — and planting — for the coming outdoor growing season
We've reached the time of the year when you can begin planting some outdoor plants inside and planning for the ones you'll start planting in the coming weeks.