Learning for Life: Seeding and growing transplants

The snow and ice are still here, but it is never to early to start planning for next year’s crop. Now is a good time to be thinking about purchasing seed and planning your vegetable or flower garden. If you have never done it before, this year might a good opportunity to try seeding and growing transplants. You can learn about seed starting and transplanting in the free publication, Seed Starting and Transplanting, available from your local Cooperative Extension Service or online.

Your local Cooperative Extension Service is your year round resource for a variety of topics, visit us today at: http://www.uaf.edu/ces/districts/kenai/ to find this publication and more or stop by the office at 43961 Kalifornsky Beach Road, Suite A between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. We are “Learning for Life.”

Submitted by Casey Matney, UAF School of Natural Resources and Extension; Agriculture and Horticulture Agent, Kenai Peninsula District.

More in Life

Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion
Artwork is displayed for silent auction at the Kenai Art Center on Thursday, Oct. 3.
Kenai Art Center’s annual auction open through Oct. 25

The exhibition features an array of art across mediums donated by local artists

This classic chicken salad is bright and tangy. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)
Afternoon chicken salad

This classic salad is bright and tangy, perfect for enjoying on a beach towel on the roof

Poster for the 2024 International Fly Fishing Film Festival. (Promotional image courtesy International Fly Fishing Film Festival)
Fly fishing film fest set for Monday

The event will feature the familiar silent auction and Kenai River Brewing’s Two-Timing Trout Ale

Pumpkins wait to be dropped from planes for the entertainment of people during Kenai Aviation’s Fifth Annual Pumpkin Drop at the Kenai Municipal Airport Operations Building in Kenai, Alaska, on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
Costumes, pumpkins and seasonal scares

Peninsula packs October with Halloween events

Artwork by Susie Scrivner for her exhibition, “Portraits of the Kenai,” fills the walls of the Kenai Art Center in Kenai, Alaska, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
Kenai through ‘fresh eyes’

October show at Kenai Art Show a celebration of Kenai Peninsula, a call for more creativity

In the Hope Cemetery, the grave marker for Warren Melville Nutter contains errors in his birth year and his age. The illustration, however, captures his adventurous spirit. (Photo courtesy of findagrave.com)
Finding Mister Nutter — Part 1

It turned out that there were at least four other Nutters on the Kenai in the first half of the 20th century

This roasted pumpkin, apple and carrot soup is smooth and sweet. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)
Soothing soup for fall days

This roasted pumpkin, apple and carrot soup is perfect for a sick kid and worried-sick parents

File
Minister’s Message: How to stop ‘stinking thinking’ and experience true life

Breaking free from “stinking thinking” requires an intentional shift in who or what we allow to control our thoughts

During the brief time (1933-34) that Bob Huttle (right) spent on Tustumena Lake, he documented a tremendous number of structures and described many of the people he met there. One of the men he traveled with frequently was John “Frenchy” Cannon (left), seen here at the Upper Bear Creek Cabin. (Photo courtesy of the Robert Huttle Collection)
Cosmopolitan Tustumena — Part 2

Many individuals came to and departed from the Tustumena scene

Most Read