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Alaska Gardening Guide [Paperback]

Ann D. Roberts (Author)
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November 1, 2000
If you can garden well in Alaska, with its immense size and varied climates, you should be able to garden in any northern area, from Canada to Maine, from Norway to northern Oregon. Alaska Gardening Guide is a hands-on, how-to book which reveals the secrets of generations of experts in cold climate gardening. It provides Alaskans (whether cheechako or sourdough) with the special knowledge they need to succeed in their state, and other northern gardeners the techniques that will help them meet their own unique growing challenges, no matter where they live and garden.

Alaska Gardening Guide is arranged in three parts; a section on planting basics for the beginning gardener, a more in-depth section dealing with specific problems encountered in the various areas in Alaska (like cold soil, premature bolting to seed, or heavy precipitation), and a final section packed full of techniques and tips for raising particular vegetables.


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Alaska Gardening Guide is a thorough review of vegetable gardening in Alaska... -- Patricia Holloway, Associate Professor of Horticulture, UAF

Ann has not written a gardening guide, but a complete encyclopedia on gardening. -- Virgil Severns, Agricultural Extension Agent, ret.

Exhaustive, plain-spoken and generously illustrated, it will soon become THE definitive and indispensable reference guide... -- Linden Staciokas, Garden author and columnist for the Fairbanks Daily News-Mine

About the Author

Ann D. Roberts moved to Alaska as a child where she lived with her family on a farm off Badger Road. By the time she had moved into town, married R. Dee Roberts, graduated from the University of Alaska, and taught school, she had recovered from a surfeit of gardening as a child to the point where she was interested in gardening on her own. Over the following years, her entire back yard turned into a garden, winning many ribbons for her organically-grown vegetables. But she grew increasingly more frustrated by the lack of information on growing, specific to Alaska. As her gardening experience grew, she began to write articles for magazines such as Organic Gardening, explaining how gardening was done in Alaska. At about the same time, she began researching in earnest a book specific to gardening in Alaska.

Ann’s main purpose was not to write what she knew, but to present what the experts knew, so this book is the result of research and interviews with expert growers, Alaska Cooperative Extension Agents, and the staff of what is now known as the Georgeson Botanical Garden at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Ann is an expert researcher. The information in Alaska Gardening Guide is the culmination of years of research and practical Alaska growing experience by many, many people. Ann’s real love is passing on her hard-won knowledge to new generations of gardeners.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Publication Consultants; 1 edition (November 1, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1888125543
  • ISBN-13: 978-1888125542
  • Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.1 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #842,324 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars At Last, Difinitive Northern Gardening Book!, November 18, 2000
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This review is from: Alaska Gardening Guide (Paperback)
This is a really great book for anyone gardening in the north, not just Alaska. Filled with the advice of the experts all over the state, and research from the Georgeson Botanical Gardens at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (formerly the UAF's Experiment Farm). Generously illustrated (over 200 charts, diagrams and photos), it actually has 352 pages if you count the 17 page index! I am very impressed with this book, as you can tell!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Unmatched for Alaska Gardening, March 15, 2010
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Ben C.A. Nettle (The Last Frontier) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Alaska Gardening Guide (Paperback)
This book is an incredible find. Gardening in Alaska presents many challenges not found elsewhere, and for a while I've struggled to match information from other areas to our local growing environment. But this book has done all the work for me. The history, the experience, suggestions, etc. are all relevant to where I'm Gardening.

The book covers everything from permafrost to glacier silt, crops for short growing seasons, difficulties of the long days (due to some crops seeding early), crops that last through the bitter cold winters (-60 F).

Really, if you're living in Alaska (or another near the Arctic climate) this book will save immense amounts of time on your gardening, and allow you to forgo many of the mistakes others have made. It will help to lower costs and produce much better vegetables in a short amount of time.

As another reviewer mentioned, it really is the definitive work for Alaska/Northern Gardening.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Finally!! Real advice for Alaskan Gardeners, September 1, 2008
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Jennine L. Wardle (Kenmore, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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I was so happy to find this book after months of relying on Canadian gardening references! I'm pleased to see an honest book from real "home" gardeners who have faced the challenges of gardening in the arctic/subarctic regions of Alaska. The author honestly presents the challenges that face gardeners in different regions of Alaska and several methods they have used to deal with them. While there is heavy reliance on information provided from the Alaska Cooperative Extension (ACE - University of Alaska Fairbanks) this isn't quite as annoying as it would be in the lower 48... the ACE team up there is very willing to investigate and recommend non-conventional gardening techniques if they work!

I'm glad I found this book and feel much better prepared to start our garden when we move there!
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