Seedlings from Alaska certified seed potatoes should have soil mounded up around them as they grow every two- to three-inches.
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Gardentalk — How to stretch your harvest well into fall
Buckets of water and fleece blankets can slow the freeze-and-frost process
Gardentalk – How to plant your own pandemic potato plot
Cut potato seeds into golf ball or ping pong ball sized pieces with an eye or two, plant the seeds with the eyes or sprouts pointing up, and cover with about a half inch of soil.
Gardentalk – Ready, set, start your seeds!
It’s prime time for starting herbs, onions, shallots, celery and parsley.
Gardentalk – Ripe corn and woolly bear caterpillars
Also, a short preview of the Harvest Fair and Farmers Market at the Juneau Community Garden on Saturday, Aug. 24.
Gardentalk – Harvest potential exploders before the big rain
Master Gardener Ed Buyarski recommends that you harvest as many ripe cherries and cabbage as you can before they split and become inedible.
Gardentalk – Use seed potatoes for your summer spud crop
Certified seed potatoes are usually disease-free and lack the chemical sprout inhibitor that is usually applied before eating potatoes are shipped to grocery stores.
Gardentalk – It’s sugar time for veggies
Cool, dry weather will actually boost the sugar content of plants, especially root vegetables.
Gardentalk – How to treat your freshly harvested potatoes with TLC
Very carefully loosen the soil and pull out potatoes by hand. Place the potatoes in trays or crates in a cool place so the skins can toughen up. Then, cover with blankets, cardboard or newspapers.
Gardentalk – Spacing sprouting spud seeds
Gardeners thinking about a crop of cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower later this season should start them indoors now.