You might not like to eat kale, but it will look great in your yard
Gardening: It’s a great week to start kale indoors. While you’re at it, plant a few tomatoes and some broccoli.
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Alaska gardeners might feel the urge to prune right now. Resist it.
Gardening: Wait for leaves so the plant can make carbs to help heal the wounds. Here are other garden chores to do instead.
Popular Alaska garden crops like kale, cauliflower and broccoli should be started from seed now
Gardening: All these go-to plants are easy to germinate, and we now have enough daylight hours to skip supplemental lighting.
Invasive species can lurk everywhere from seed packets to aquarium tanks
Gardening: Alaska gardeners know what happens when the wrong plant gets loose in the yard.
Sunflowers come in all sorts of colors. Don’t limit your plantings to yellow.
Gardening: Sunflowers come in red, white, yellow and orange, in almost any size, and they’re truly easy to grow.
Growing your own celery could put you off store-bought celery forever. But you need to start seeds now.
Gardening: You’ll be amazed at how much better homegrown tastes. It’s also time for Alaska gardeners to start gladioli, pansies and lobelia.
Don’t wait for spring: Early-bird gardeners get the fattest begonia tubers
Gardening: It’s time for roses, fuchsia, pelargoniums, rhodochitons and even begonias to get water and take in some sunlight.
Don’t try to sterilize your soil in a microwave. In fact, don’t sterilize your soil at all.
Gardening: Rest assured, you want those microbes. And, by the way, don’t sterilize your seeds with hydrogen peroxide or anything else.
You can wait for spring to garden for fresh greens, or you can grow delicious, leafy lettuces now
Gardening: While you’re at it, why not try Tom Thumb cherry tomatoes, some of those small carrots or radishes? You can grow a restaurant-worthy salad in the middle of the winter.
It’s too early to start seedlings indoors. Here’s what to do instead.
Gardening in Alaska: Starting seeds and growing seedlings when the proper time arrives is not difficult.
Some garden books to inspire and inform Alaskans while we’re between seasons
Gardening: From growing plants under artificial lights to the world of botanical fragrances, there’s a topic for every gardening interest.
Fabulous summer gardens are planned in winter. Check these sites for inspiration.
Gardening: This is the best time to look at Alaska garden possibilities and prepare for the upcoming season.
Here are some great gardening newsletters for your winter reading list
Gardening: There’s a ton of great writing about organic gardening that can be delivered to your email inbox. And why not peruse the news from Australia, or England while you’re at it?
It’s time to seed your ideas for this year’s garden
Alaska gardening: Here are online sources for seeds, plus the one heirloom seed catalog worth getting your hands on in hard copy.
Exploring the gardening potential of the Last Frontier over 100 years ago
Around the turn of the 20th century, Charles C. Georgeson helped establish agricultural experimental stations across Alaska.
Alaska gardeners should resolve to plant a row for the hungry this year
Gardening: There are no real rules, no government administration, no required overseer or sponsor group for this program.
Beyond poinsettias, here are suggestions for your Christmas plant collection
Gardening: How about trying to bring these all into bloom in time for the holidays?
ATV lawn mower? Customized gnome? Trendy gardening gift ideas our expert suggests you avoid.
Gardening: Bet you didn’t know that for a mere $150 you could have a little statue made with a very realistic depiction of the head of your favorite gardener.
These gifts for gardeners can be wrapped and put under the Christmas tree
Gardening: The best gift is probably a helping hand in the yard or garden next season.
How to choose poinsettias and Christmas trees
Gardening: Once you’ve bought your holiday plants, here’s how to care for them.