Landscape Alaska - Conversations with Alaska Gardeners

A sunny weekend is in store, finally, one of the wettest on record! Frost is starting to show up in the colder parts of town so it's zero-hour for getting prepared for winter. Get those lawns cut and fertilized, prune your trees and shrubs, we field some questions about moss, mushrooms, huckleberries, and even holly. Have a wonderful winter! Make sure you are subscribed and just maybe we'll sneak in a podcast or two throughout the winter!

A beautiful, sunny Labor Day weekend is in store - just a perfect weekend to get a head start on preparing things for the long winter. It's time to give your lawn and shrubs a final good feeding so they have some nutrients to carry them into spring. We talk about berries, answer a call on how lime works, a secret ingredient for cooking wild game with - and so much more!

We start off talking about all the different types of Hydrangea's there are and which ones respond better to our climate. We answer a question on what would be eating the leaves of your Rhododendrons. And it's time to start thinking about what bulbs you'll want to plant to get some color poking through the snow in the springtime!

In this episode we start off with a caller wondering how to get rid of smelly mushrooms on a tree, and a little later we talk about other fungi and invasive parasites. It's also that time of year to start pruning, cutting back plants like your rhododendrons, other shrubs, and your bleeding hearts (if they have already flowered). We talk a little about berries and of course, more fertilizing!

After a windy and stormy night, we talk about how to keep infection out of broken or trimmed tree branches. We talk a little about the history of the Treadwell mine, we chat about fertilizing your lawns again and it's time to feed your strawberries. We also talk a little bit about keeping your perennials safe and standing.

With seemingly endless rain this summer and in the forecast, managing lawns right now is quite the chore. Today we get a little deeper into lawn management, fertilizing, seeding, mowing, and troubleshooting issues that may arise. We also talk about what to do about those hungry slugs!

We are already a third of the way through summer and moving right down the calendar pretty quickly! Today we talk about transplanting plants, managing hedges, keeping root systems under control and a bevy of other things.

The plants and trees understand that the days are starting to get shorter, so they will begin the process of preparing for another long southeast Alaskan winter - storing food and producing new growth sprouts that will flourish next spring. We talk a bit about that and a little about pruning, fertilizing, dead-heading, we have a short conversation about a Maple tree issue - and of course so much more!

Some more tips on taming the constantly growing grass, planting on vertical surfaces, a little about roses, experimenting with imported plants and advice on eradicating the rhododendron munching root weevils and of course much, much more!

On this rainy Southeast Alaskan day - on the cusp of the solstice - we talk about keeping your endlessly growing lawns at bay, lilac pruning, what's causing the holes in your Rhododendrun leaves (and what you use to stop it), what grass types are best grown in our climate and more!

There is so much to do this time of year! Today we talk about reseeding lawns, what those wily Ravens are doing picking at your yard, safety equipment, berries, planting and managing fruit trees and so much more!

Today we talk about when to cut back your bleeding hearts, why tomato leaves curl, when is the best time to prune trees, how wet to keep your soil and much, much more! Happy Gardening!

We are deep into spring! The Rhododendruns are poised to explode in color, we talk about fixing damaged lawns, spireas, more fertilizing tips and all the berries!

Today we chat about Mugo Pines, moss on trees, lawn mowing, composting and more fertilizing rhododendrons!

This episode you may notice is a little different. In order to play the song we want as the intro/outro, they want $500 an episode, so I will be cutting out the music in this episode and the previous two, and next week, I'll record the audio into it's own track so you don't miss anything!

It's a hot spring in Southeast Alaska this year, we'll talk about proper watering methods for hot sunny days, rhododendrons, what the numbers on fertilizer mean, fruit trees, carrots, and more!

It's the beginning of a new gardening season in Southeast Alaska. Margaret and Dave talk about vegetable garden soil, frost, nematodes, slugs, aphids and more!