Alaska’s climate is changing fast. Garden accordingly.
Who would have imagined that you could still plant bulbs on the third weekend of November?
Gardening
Get the most out of this warm November for your lawn and garden
Gardening: With the nonexistent snow cover come opportunities.
These flowering houseplants add cheer to colder Alaska months
November is when we really notice the darkness. Fortunately, many houseplants can help.
It’s time for indoor plants. That means it’s time for indoor plant lights.
Bottom line: If you are going to have houseplants all winter in Alaska, let them perform at their best by imitating ideal conditions. In almost every case that means supplemental lights.
Have you noticed flies swarming by your windows now that it’s getting cold? Here’s what’s going on.
Trust me, there’s a gardening connection.
Answering reader questions: Feeding birds, replacing dead spruce trees and getting poinsettias to bloom again
Also, it’s time to get those indoor lights for plants up and running. If you don’t have any, go to one of the state’s fine, indoor grow stores, and get the best you can afford.
The autumn leaves drift past your window. Now leave them alone.
Alaska gardening: This might sound harsh, but it’s no longer acceptable to rake leaves off your lawns and garden beds, from your containers or from underneath and around trees and shrubs.
If you haven’t noticed bird populations dropping in Anchorage, you’re not paying attention
There are no longer any yellow legs, lesser or otherwise. There are few nesting geese and fewer ducks.
Gladioli, dahlias, begonias: It’s time to consider packing them up for winter
Also, cannabis won’t make it to harvest, probably, due to frost, so consider moving inside.
Here’s what you should do this weekend to prepare your garden for winter
The gardening mail keeps pouring in -- with some good ideas and one very, very bad one.
I was wrong about the zinnias. So wrong.
Zinnias are spectacular annuals and totally worth growing in Southcentral Alaska.
Anchorage spruce trees are dying. We need to talk about what happens next.
At some point even commercial tree removers will need help with disposal. And what should be planted in their place?
Feed your garden beds now so they’ll be ready for spring
Putting organics into your system now means that by the time spring comes along there will be plenty of goodies for your plants.
It’s almost time to plant spring bulbs: Tulips, daffodils and ... garlic?
Garlic is every bit as easy to grow in Alaska as the traditional, colorful spring bulbs, and surely the harvest is much more rewarding. Garlic even produces an interesting flower.
The trouble with thrips: They’re as annoying to gardeners as is possible
These tiny, black, thread-like pests dig into plants and like to hang about in gangs, which is why you see so many of them. It is as if they want to be as annoying as possible.
Last year’s garden did great. This year, it did nothing. What went wrong?
Other reader questions answered: Plastic pot recycling day, small raspberries and tall potato plants.
Do these two things to make your Alaska garden look amazing right now
Do you really know what it means to deadhead? How much water is enough?
9 super gardens will be open to the public this weekend for the Anchorage Garden Club tour
Visitors can stop by any of the locations on the tour from Noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. The event is meant to foster interest in Alaska gardening and plant species, said Sharon Jones, chair of the Anchorage Garden Club.
Blackberries, shade gardening, snakes? Imagining a warmer climate for Alaska gardens
Change is coming to Alaska’s plants, animals, insects and microbes, and gardening practices will need to change too.
Here’s what’s going on with those blotchy brown spots on your lilac bush
We are experiencing a lilac leaf roller plague of biblical dimensions. Look at any common lilac in your yard and you will see what that means.