Alaska-grown poinsettias are among the nation’s best
Alaska gardening: All manner of new varieties with different-colored and -patterned flowers will be introduced this holiday season.
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With bears still awake, it’s too early to put out bird feeders
A lack of food will help get bears into hibernation mood.
Snow or not, it’s time to turn on grow lights for your indoor plants
Alaska may end up with a permanently warmer climate, but we will still experience the annual loss of daylight that announces the approach of every winter.
How to use the extra gardening time we’re getting this season
I am actually getting email questions from readers in the Lower 48 who are trying to figure out how to deal with the less temperate weather they are experiencing.
Putting scores of idling school buses next to an organic botanical garden is a bad idea
Another bad idea: spraying glyphosate in green belts to get rid of invasive mayday trees.
Video tour: A Spenard garden, from spring to full bloom
Relive summer one more time with this look at a fantastic floral garden.
Gardeners, forget the what-ifs and take advantage of this weird and wonderful fall weather
Gardeners, imagine all the things we could have been doing if we'd known how long the warm days and nights would continue.
Skip the leaf raking and get your yard ready for winter
The rule is to plan on snow sticking for Halloween, and if I remember, it is pretty cold that night as well.
Alaska gardeners, it’s time to start planting for spring
Jeff Lowenfels: Crocuses, daffodils, galanthus and scilla -- in addition to actually planting them, the key thing is to make sure you plant them so that when they bloom, they look good.
You can grow great garlic in Alaska – and it’s almost time to start planting
Jeff Lowenfels: It is best to wait, if you can, until just after the first killing frost and then get your bulbs in the ground during the following week or two.
South Anchorage apple orchard opens to the public one day a year
People interested in picking their own fruit Saturday can choose from more than 200 trees of 20 varieties.
Here are the plants you should get ready to pull out of the garden and bring inside
Jeff Lowenfels: Houseplants are the first thing that you should bring in. Now might be time for that, so you don’t risk them getting damaged by the colder nights we are now experiencing.
Fertilizer is a waste of money. For proof, look at nearly any lawn in Anchorage right now.
Jeff Lowenfels: All you really have to do is water, foremost, along with the easy job of leaving grass clippings where they fall and mowing over tree leaves when they drop.
Here’s what a cover crop is and why you should plant one for your garden soon
Jeff Lowenfels: In order to give some benefit, a cover crop needs to be planted so you get at least four weeks of growth before the frost hits.
It’s still summer. Don’t give up on your yard yet.
It's time for new potatoes, berries, trimming back your lawn and - in Anchorage - plastic pot recycling
See these charming purple flowers in your yard? Destroy them immediately.
Jeff Lowenfels: Bird vetch and purple bellflower are two plants vexing readers this month - and serve as perfect examples of how powerful invasive plants can be.
The fireweed is blooming: Here’s what Alaska gardeners need to do next
Jeff Lowenfels: For starters, we should be harvesting.
It seems like cow parsnip is everywhere – but it could be so much worse
Jeff Lowenfels: All those plants you thought were highly poisonous aren't as strong as either yellow or giant cow parsnip.
People on the Peninsula: The peony pioneer
Rita Jo Shoultz started Alaska's first peony farm.