Thinning beets is a bit different than thinning other vegetables. Take ahold of a young leaf and gently pull it away from the others to see if there are multiple stems. If so, pluck out all but one and leave a plant every 3 inches.
This 1910 photo shows the use of a ferry to transport people across the Chena River until the Turner Street bridge was repaired after the winter break-up of the river. The picture is taken looking downstream about where the present Cushman Street bridge is located. Pioneers of Alaska Museum …
Sunday, June 09, 2019
As Alaskans, our connection to the outdoors is reflected in art and in material culture.
It seems a bit ludicrous now, first to invest so much emotion in a tree, and secondly, to think whacking off the top would cure it. But our father, always obliging, climbed up and sliced through the 7-inch trunk to remove the upper third of the tree.
Of all the legends from Alaska’s pioneer era, few if any are as beloved and revered as the tale of the Sourdough Expedition.
Saturday, June 08, 2019
Alive since the days Natives first noticed wooden ships in Yakutat Bay, the Sitka spruce died a few decades ago, when an unseen glacier drowned them.
Saturday, June 01, 2019
Volunteers hauled in tires, yards of plastic, hundreds of plastic bottles — some filled with urine — beer cans, soiled diapers, dozens of blue and green plastic endcaps used to protect pipes, plastic bags and rusting metal.
Not long ago, a glaciologist wrote that the number of glaciers in Alaska “is estimated at (greater than) 100,000.” That fuzzy number, maybe written in passive voice for a reason, might be correct. But it depends upon how you count.
You know what comes next on the gardening schedule, right? Weeding and thinning. And more weeding and thinning. Keeping any pesky unwanted plants under control is important, especially when your seedlings are young.
“I had a dream when I was in the university,” said Salinas Kinga, recalling his student days. “I told my classmates, ‘I think the rest of my life will be in the United States.’ They were laughing at me, but all the time something in my mind was telling me, my life is not in Congo, it is in t…
Prior to construction of the Alaska Railroad through the Matanuska Valley, there was little development in the area that would one day be Palmer.
