April 1 is the start of the indoor gardening season in Alaska. It should be a month or so earlier, but trying to convince every Alaska gardener to install and use some sort of growing light system is ...

I hope you have read, at least once, the “garden calendar” that accompanies each of these columns. The first item is always something about the Alaska Botanical Garden, an institution which I believe ...

Most gardeners I know tend to be fairly haphazard with their raspberry patches, myself included. This laxity works because raspberries tend to spread on their own (much more than you might want in ...

The RustyRavin Plant Ranch near Kenai is one of several peninsula plant nurseries that saw an uptick in business sooner than normal this gardening season. Summer is in the air, and for the RustyRavin ...

Twenty-five years after University of Alaska Fairbanks horticulture researcher Pat Holloway’s initial discovery that Alaska held a niche in the peony market due to its unique bloom time and access to ...