FAIRBANKS — Last week I talked about these winter chores, some of which may not apply to you: pick up plastic garbage littering your yard and garden, wash out reusable containers so they are ready ...

FAIRBANKS - The time for making jam, fruit butter and syrup is largely over at our house. I still have applesauce and compost jelly to freeze and can, but the ingredients are polite enough to wait ...

FAIRBANKS - This week, a few of the torments being experienced by local gardeners. One reader wrote that the tomato plants growing in his greenhouse were listless and the leaves were yellowing. ...

FAIRBANKS — I thought the chickweed column was going to win this season’s prize for triggering the most e-mails, but that was before I started writing about horse manure. One reader, who did not ...

FAIRBANKS — This topic started last week when I talked about discovering, to my horror, that gardening writer Ann Lovejoy believes that aged horse manure is terrible for the garden. She says the ...

FAIRBANKS — Here is the single most astounding fact I learned in May: Some people in Fairbanks raise chickweed on purpose. As in, they reserve a portion of their garden area for a weed the majority...

FAIRBANKS - Here is the question I have been asked most frequently this spring: Have you ever used a Topsy-Turvy planter? Usually the questions of May are about zucchinis that fail to produce male ...

FAIRBANKS - It is not too late to plant most greens and lettuces. In fact, this weekend I will be sowing a six-pack each of kale, spinach, leaf lettuce and the miniature butterhead lettuce called G...

FAIRBANKS - Every year I run into someone who asks me how I can possibly limit myself when it comes to gardening. Here is a confession: I always have too many plants for the size of my garden. And...

FAIRBANKS - Try to restrain yourself. It is still a bit early for transplanting; even though some years we don’t see frost after mid-May, most years we have the occasional frost clear up to Memoria...