Alaska garden columnist Jeff Lowenfels says you don’t have the luxury of a long growing season in the north to justify taking a weekend off because it is too cold or wet or you want to go fishing.
One of the hard and fast rules of Alaska yardening is that you must take whatever weather nature gives you, be it hell or high water. We don’t — yet — have the luxury of a long enough growing season to take a weekend off because it is too cold or wet, fool around and go fishing or do anything else that might delay getting our gardens in.
So, by all means get those plants into your gardens. This includes annuals, row crops and those tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers that grow in outdoor — or, better put, “summer” — greenhouses. You still must harden indoor grown plants if they have not spent some time outdoors and that is going to take four or five days or so. Rototilling won’t speed up soil warming and is still a no-no. Mulches, on the other hand, are the best thing to prevent weeds and will feed your garden soil’s microbes.
When it comes to our lawn, I am still at the “just water” stage. Ours is greening up more and more every day. Once again this year, no fertilizer needed here. You might want to aerate your lawn. Rent a machine or walk around in golf shoes? Sure. The loyal reader knows I have ceded our lawns to dandelions and now simply mow them over without bagging even seed heads. After they are mowed, however, we have what looks like a lush, green lawn. Maybe I should start calling it “yard” instead.
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