Archive for June 2003
Featured Fruit — Wild Alaskan Blueberry
Wild Alaskan Blueberry Vaccinium ovalifolium, V. alaskensis, V. uliginosum Our wild blueberries here in Alaska tend to be much more flavorful than the commercial blueberries bought at the grocery store. They grow in such abundance that many find no need to attempt the very specific conditions required for growing blueberry cultivars in their back…
Read MoreNew Fruit Variety Trials
By Tami Schlies Our visit from Bernie Nikolai this summer was very enlightening on a lot of fronts. He is from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, which has weather most like our state, though a bit colder winters and hotter summers than Anchorage. Their average frost dates are around may 24th and September 15th. They only get…
Read MoreDid You Know?
Did You Know? If you discover a girdled tree in early spring, use white silicone caulking on the exposed area to prevent desiccation and save the tree. The bark may grow back. Young apple trees do best in bare soil with no competing grass or weeds and no mulch. Evans cherry…
Read MoreThe Editor’s Garden
By Tami Schlies Greetings from the Editor’s Garden! Our heat wave this summer has been great to many of my plants, and I wish I’d planted more beans and corn. As they say, it is either a bean year or a lean year, and this is definitely a bean year! My potatoes are suffering from…
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