You may not want to thin your vegetables. Do it anyway.
If you don’t sacrifice some of the young ones, you will get a harvest of lots of stunted things.
Gardening
An Arctic vegetable farm steadily takes root and flourishes in Anaktuvuk Pass
Red romaine, purple potatoes, and blue tomatoes are still not the norm in Anaktuvuk Pass, but Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson is aiming to demystify them, one color at a time.
Jeff Lowenfels answers your only-in-Alaska yard and garden questions
Answers to Alaska-specific gardening issues, from fireweed to cannabis to bears in the yard.
An Alaskan wants to put a lettuce tower in every elementary school in America
Bernie Karl, who owns Chena Hot Springs northeast of Fairbanks, has a mission: He wants to teach kids how to feed their families using cheap, easily obtained materials.
Here’s your midsummer checklist, Alaska gardeners
The growing season is progressing fast. Have you taken care of these items yet?
Be your own bees, Alaska gardeners
Even if you have a healthy presence of bees and other pollinators in your garden, it's still a good idea to pollinate your plants by hand.
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 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.