Talk Dirt To Me

Gardening in Alaska presents big challenges, whether it's the extra effort in finding plants tough enough to survive our Zone 2-4 climate, communicating with like-minded Alaska gardeners, or keeping up with the latest trends, issues and solutions. We'll try to help with that. We'll also tour gardens from Homer to Anchorage to Wasilla to Willow whenever we get the chance, and post the best garden photos around. Presenting a forum about cold-weather gardening and for cold-weather gardeners is what we are all about. We hope you'll join us on the Talk Dirt garden blog.

Photographer and gardener Fran Durner (fdurner@adn.com) writes the blog.

2009 Garden galleries

Images from a full year of gardening in Alaska.

Jeff Lowenfels

A member of the Garden Writers Hall of Fame, Jeff writes a weekly column on gardening in Alaska.

February Garden Calendar - 1/29/2010 9:28 am

UA Anchorage recognized as a Tree Campus USA - 1/27/2010 10:36 am

Stone walls provide beauty and exercise - 1/26/2010 8:43 am

USDA program for high tunnels offered - 1/25/2010 8:08 pm

Worms could eat your garbage too - 1/24/2010 8:01 pm

Wildflower Garden Club offers annual scholarship - 1/21/2010 1:08 pm

Where did you find inspiration last year? - 1/19/2010 3:57 pm

Zaumseils say farewell for now - 1/18/2010 3:57 pm

Two forums of interest to gardeners this week

November Garden Calendar
View Garden Gallery
Submit Your Garden Photos!

Steve Brown and friend. Photo courtesy Steve Brown.Steve Brown and friend. Photo courtesy Steve Brown.November 13, Friday, 8:30am-noon. Gardeners are invited to the Friday morning forum of the Alaska Farm Bureau annual meeting. Presentations include Chicken University, learn to raise chickens in your backyard presented by CES agent Steve Brown, Growing Apples in Alaska presented by grower Dan Elliott and Preserving Your Harvest presented by CES home economist Leslie Shallcross. At the Millennium Hotel in Anchorage. $20 registration or $30 including lunch. You can register online here or contact Jane Hamilton at janehamilton99737@yahoo.com or 907-895-4752.

Verna Pratt leading a workshop on alpines in Denali National park. ADN archive.Verna Pratt leading a workshop on alpines in Denali National park. ADN archive.Thursday November 12 and Friday November 13, The 2009 Botany Forum will be held on the UAA Campus. Some of the presentations include Alaska's Vulnerable Alpines presented by Verna Pratt, Finding Rare Plants on the Chugach and Tongass National Forests, an Overview of 2009 Rare Plant Surveys by Mary Stensvold of the U.S. Forest Service and a Willow Identification workshop led by naturalist Dominique Collet. Click here for the full agenda. Registration and other information can be found here. In the Commons Building on Sharon Gagnon Lane off Elmore Rd.

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