Chickweed and horsetails: Weed them now, while it’s early in the season
Gardening in Alaska: Weeding should be on your early-season to-do list if you want to save yourself a lot of work later on.
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Let’s move beyond gas lawnmowers, leaf blowers and other exhaust-spewing yard tools
Gardening: We have all had at least one gas-powered tool fail to respond until finally the only solution is to get a replacement.
For many Anchorage residents coping with pandemic, gardening becomes ‘almost a necessary enjoyment’
Gardening has always been popular in Alaska. But even more families are turning to it as a way to cope, and nurseries say they’re having trouble keeping vegetable starts and seeds in stock.
Gardening season has arrived in Alaska. Do these chores now.
Watering, pest and weed control, harvesting rhubarb: This time of year comes with a long to-do list.
Did moose snack on your trees over the winter? Here’s what to do now.
Jeff Lowenfels answers readers’ yard and garden questions: Why are birch trees dripping? To rototill or not to rototill?
A few signs that it might be warm enough to start planting outside
Gardening: Longtime readers know about the squirrel’s ear tip. Here are a few others.
Two things you should do for your lawn this spring - and two things to avoid
Alaska gardening advice: Since the snow is just melting, let’s start with this rule: Stay off the lawn until it dries.
Want to grow your own food? Here are the easiest vegetables to cultivate in Alaska.
Gardening: Many factors are driving the current surge of interest in vegetable gardening.
Alaska gardeners have lots of questions about seeds and seedlings
Gardening in Alaska: Nurseries are still open and the gardening spirit thrives.
With seeds harder to come by, here are some ideas for Alaska gardeners
Gardening: It’s time to think about getting creative and sharing what we have. We are all in this together. Gardeners always have been.
An onslaught of orders engulfs seed companies amid coronavirus fears
Customers are gravitating to vegetables high in nutrients, such as kale, spinach and other quick-to-grow leafy greens, seed companies say. The other top seller is beans.
With everything going on, Alaskans need plant nurseries more than ever
Gardening: If we can’t get seeds, soil, containers and starts, how are we going to engage in growing food?
A meeting about dying Southcentral trees drew a packed house last month. That discussion is only beginning.
Gardening: The biggest question: What to replant after beetle kills? The answer was surprising.
Here are some things to start earlier than usual for your Alaska garden
Tomato seeds, for one.
Planting outdoors while there’s still snow on the ground? It’s not so crazy, and this might be the year to give it a try
Gardening: Radishes, peas and carrots are all seeds that can germinate in cool soil.
The light is coming back. It’s time to get spring bulbs out of storage
Seed racks are coming back too. Nurseries are open. Time to get supplies.
Answering reader questions: When nonnative plants are OK, how to attract hummingbirds
Gardening: Many plants introduced to Alaska don’t support our wildlife and have other unexpected, negative consequences. (But new, well-behaved, non-self-seeding annuals and vegetables are welcome.)
Roses are red — but this plant is a far more interesting valentine
Jeff Lowenfels: Hoya kerri is a vining wax plant, only this one has heart-shaped leaves.
What should we do after beetles kill Southcentral’s spruce trees?
Jeff Lowenfels: Topics of the first-ever community tree forum include: What do you replace a 50-year-old spruce with? Should we replace spruce with spruce? What to do with all the dead wood?
This is the year to try starting your sweet peas in February
Alaska gardening: I am not saying planting in April won’t still produce flowers. But your sweet peas are going to be bigger, more prolific and earlier-flowering if you start in the upcoming weeks.