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Posted: Mar/13/2008 10:30 AM PST
I am in an online gardening swap and I've been partnered with someone who lives in Alaska. Can you help me with what I should by for that climate? What would you like to receive if you are from Alaska or a Zone 3 climate? Ideas needed. Thanks in Advance. |
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Posted: Mar/13/2008 7:57 PM PST
do they use any sorta pots?? (im in zone 5 so thats what i know) id suggest maby mints (they are great and what i call re-seeding perennials as thats how many come back) while i was there last year they had some seeds you could buy an take home grow there they included (all alaska many wild so i wont mention those 2 words if you want pics of the first 3 package just say so) iris rose fireweed blueberry shoot i know there was a selection of like 8 but those are all i remember (i wanted the 4th one "youll find it somewhere else" it WASNT anywhere else not even the airport!!) http://www.burpee.com/p2p/searchResults.do?method= view&search=basic&keyword=zone++3&sortby=newArriva ls&page=1 may help some?? burpee search zone 3 edit the trip was in july of 07 |
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Posted: May/17/2008 5:54 AM PST
HI, I just joined but I live in Alaska, in the Fairbanks area. One GREAT source of information about what will grow here is the Sunset Western Garden book. I have been a gardener all my life and grew up in the Mojave Desert of southern California. (Zone 11 in the SWG Book). Now I am in zone A-1, the most extreme of all the zones and believe it or not there is a TON of things you can grow up here. Apples, Oaks, Lilacs, Grapes(!) - yes those too. Flowers especially annuals go nuts up here in the 24 hour sun of summer. I grow so much it amazes my friends and inspires them to try things that some of the old timers never gave any thought about. Sunset just added Alaska a few years ago, before that I would have referred to zone 1 or 2 at best. The thing up here is that it is a short yet VERY intense season. Only about 100 days between killing frost, but what a 100 days it is. I have also just started a weekly newsletter that spans the world, not just Alaska. I have great resources, photos, videos and interviews with people from across the U.S. even Hawaii, and Australia so far. Check it out at www.goldmineview.com - thats the sign up page. I am updating weekly and if anyone has specific questions I take all kinds. If I don't know, I will find the answer or the resource for you a.s.a.p. Hope this helps, and b.t.w; the newsletter is Free! keith |
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