Cooperative Extension Service

It's time to get your garden tools cleaned up and ready for the season. Be sure your hand tools are disinfected to prevent any spread of disease through your plants. See if your beds can be worked or if they're still to cold and muddy. Gardening success is measured by how well your preparations are. Good Growing.

With the usual snows and cold weather we get on the central Kenai Peninsula, it's imperative we prepare our gardening beds the best we can to enhance and prepare the soil for a successful planting season.

Determine what your seeds need to enhance successful germination and then how to take care of those seedlings to ensure the most optimum viability for a prosperous garden.

Tips on starting your seeds for transplanting or direct sowing and how to care for the seedlings until ready to transplant.

The start of season 5 with a look back at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show held in Seattle from Feb 18-22, 2026

Larry and Casey talk about what worked for your garden in 2025 and what to do for preparing for a successful garden season in 2026

* I can't show the full recipes as read on the show. If you will email me at growingagreenerkenai@kdll.org, I will send you the recipes in full.You've worked hard in the garden, too hard to let your produce not be taken care of. Here's a list of Larry's favorite recipes using much of the produce coming from his garden.

It's the time of year when gardeners are beginning to harvest crops from a summer of hard work. We all work too hard not to properly preserve our harvests to last us through the winter. Today, my friend David Rigall, a retired landscape architect, and I will discuss preserving the harvest and also discuss how indigenous peoples throughout the millennia stored their food.

What are parthenocarpic plants? They are plants that are self-pollinating and don't need insects to pollinate their flowers. They can pollinate by wind, shaking, vibration, and any other method that lets them know to release their pollen and self-pollinate.

Gardens love compost, and making it yourself is an easy peasy way to make your garden plants happy and provide them with the natural nutrients they need to grow healthy.