Do you love to make mud pies, grow a houseplant, eat veggies, or stop to smell the bouquet on your co-workers desk? Everyone enjoys a bit of green growing around him or her and then there are those that are passionate and needy when it comes to dabbling in the dirt. With this blog, we'll try to satisfy those needs and tell you about what's going on with the Anchorage gardening scene. You know, as I finally learned, it's all about the dirt.
Photographer and gardener Fran Durner (fdurner@adn.com) writes the blog.
Take an interactive tour of the gardens showing in Anchorage's garden tour, with photos and audio commentary from each gardener.
Deadheading and seed collecting
Harvesting herbs from your garden
Municipal Greenhouse Gardeners
Alaska Society of Outdoor and Nature Photographers
Alaska Plant Materials Center:
Fairbanks Georgeson Botanical Garden
Palmer Hay Flats State Game Refuge
Pyrahs Pioneer Peak U-Pick Farm
South Anchorage Farmers Market
Christmas tree time - 12/4/2008 1:30 pm
Splitting dahlias with Amelia Walsh - 12/2/2008 9:53 am
December Garden Calendar - 11/30/2008 4:39 pm
Thanks - 11/26/2008 9:50 am
Greenhouse, nursery and peony conferences coming in January - 11/24/2008 6:20 pm
About Garden Design - 11/23/2008 4:15 pm
50 Years of Statehood - 11/19/2008 3:26 pm
Try pinwheels for moose defense - 11/18/2008 3:38 pm
Harvest bark responsibly - 11/16/2008 2:52 pm
Have a healthy winter - 11/13/2008 3:09 pm
Bits of this and that - 11/10/2008 8:04 pm
Garden grant money available for 2009 - 11/10/2008 4:00 pm
How did your garden grow? - 11/9/2008 4:28 pm
Snow Makes Sprouts Sweeter - 11/4/2008 3:59 pm
Separated at birth? - 11/2/2008 11:21 am
November Garden Calendar - 10/30/2008 12:06 pm
Valley Apple Guy - 10/28/2008 11:47 am
One more weekend to prepare - 10/27/2008 11:06 am
Autumn elsewhere - 10/23/2008 11:02 am
Apples again on Thursday - 10/21/2008 8:46 am
Season of the Larch - 10/19/2008 6:34 pm
The winter of late flowers - 10/15/2008 3:55 pm
Posted: April 30, 2008 - 5:01 pm
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Here's a situation that many gardener's are facing right now and Julie Riley at the Cooperative Extension Service provided the answer:
Try to think of moose nuggets as jewels in the garden. Photo by Fran Durner.As the snow melts and uncovers all those piles of moose nuggets in my yard, is it OK to sweep them into the garden beds as fertilizer? Would that be considered organic?
Sure, sweep those nuggets into the garden! I must have 8 piles from whats-his-name, Bulltwinkle the deceased. Actually, it would be better to crush them up once they’re dried and scratch them into the soil or add to the compost pile. The smaller the particle size, the faster the decomposition. Organic, definitely. - Julie Riley
May 3, 2008 - 10:50am | jbaldwin
Gathering moose nuggets for the compost pile in Grandma’s yard used to be a springtime ritual with my g’kids. Who needs Easter egg hunts? A uniquely Alaskan substitution: with gloves, garden trowel and buckets,
a competitive treasure hunt for winter moose nuggets. Though they did draw the line at smashing them. Alas, they’ve grown too old and are not so easily enticed these days.
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1 April 30, 2008 - 7:49pm | rosmarinus
Moose Marbles
Julie is right. Without crushing they will last forever, even without shellac. However, my
local spring moose can lay wet cow pies and they go under quickly and completely after I find them with my feet.
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