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Growing A Greener Kenai
by Larry Opperman
Get your garden growing with Larry Opperman, master gardener with the Central Peninsula Garden Club. The central Kenai Peninsula has its own strengths and challenges when it comes to producing your own food and flowers and we're here to help you have a bountiful growing season. If Larry can't answer your questions, he'll bring on guests who can. Email Larry questions at [email protected] the RSS feed here
Episodes
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Growing Season Close Out 2026
The 2026 growing season is over but there is still a lot of work to do in the garden. We'll discuss harvesting, garden winterization, saving bulbs, planting spring bulbs, garlic, and other activities to do now to get your garden ready for next year.
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Preserving Your Hard Earned Harvest
Most gardeners work too hard to let their harvests go to waste. Today, we'll discuss the many different ways to preserve your harvest to enjoy in our chilly zone 4 winters.
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Plant Power: The Magic of Photosynthesis
Flowers are beautiful and we love to look at them, smell, them, and see vegetables grow as a result of those flowers. But have you ever wondered how photosynthesis works to make those flowers and vegetables. We'll dive deep into how photosynthesis works from the power of the sun.
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Garden Wins, Worries, and What To Do Now
The garden season is actually winding down for central peninsula gardens. Today's show discusses where your garden should be now on Aug 1 and what you are harvesting, continuing to plant, pests, and weeds you might be fighting.
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Weeds, Bugs, & Garden Thugs
With gardens growing strong, we need to be sure outside forces like weeds & bugs don't destroy our gardens and affect harvests. There's a way to fight this war and gardeners must be diligent in their efforts.
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It's not too late for tomatoes
It's been a late start to summer, but it's time to get going on tomatoes
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Spring garden prep and patience
Casey Matney and Marion Nelson join Larry for tips on getting your garden ready for spring... whenever it finally arrives
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Prepping Your Garden Tools And getting Beds Ready to Plant
It's time to get your garden tools cleaned up and ready for the season. Be sure your hand tools are disinfected to prevent any spread of disease through your plants. See if your beds can be worked or if they're still to cold and muddy. Gardening success is measured by how well your preparations...
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Spring Soil Preparation To Start Your Gardening Season
With the usual snows and cold weather we get on the central Kenai Peninsula, it's imperative we prepare our gardening beds the best we can to enhance and prepare the soil for a successful planting season.
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Taking Care of Seeds and Seedlings
Determine what your seeds need to enhance successful germination and then how to take care of those seedlings to ensure the most optimum viability for a prosperous garden.
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Seed Starting & Fertilizer Techniques
Tips on starting your seeds for transplanting or direct sowing and how to care for the seedlings until ready to transplant.
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Northwest Flower & Garden Show & Season 5 of GAGK
The start of season 5 with a look back at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show held in Seattle from Feb 18-22, 2026
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Gifts for the gardener, 2025
Got a gardener on your shopping list? Larry's got ideas for getting a green thumbs up!
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Casey Matney Season Finale
Larry and Casey talk about what worked for your garden in 2025 and what to do for preparing for a successful garden season in 2026
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Garden End Of Times and Recipes
* I can't show the full recipes as read on the show. If you will email me at [email protected], I will send you the recipes in full.You've worked hard in the garden, too hard to let your produce not be taken care of. Here's a list of Larry's favorite recipes using much of the produce...
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Garden Status and Food Storage
It's the time of year when gardeners are beginning to harvest crops from a summer of hard work. We all work too hard not to properly preserve our harvests to last us through the winter. Today, my friend David Rigall, a retired landscape architect, and I will discuss preserving the harvest and…
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Summer showers and tantalizing tomatoes
No garden is complete without some experimentation and some mistakes. That's why Larry is going to try to grow Brussels sprouts again this year. Also this week, a rainy start to the summer, figuring out fertilizer, and the chase for a great tomato.
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Getting out in the dirt
Larry gives an update on his greenhouse and tips for great growing this year
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Warming up
Larry shares tips for keeping plants warm and healthy in early summer days where the temperature still falls low.
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Gearing up for gardening
Larry talks readying a space to get gardening as the weather starts to improve.
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Casey Matney sets you up for garden success
Casey Matney, PHD, and head of the University of Alaska Cooperative Extension Service discusses the best options to have a successful garden in our central Kenai Peninsula growing zone 4.
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Sewing the seeds of a good summer
Now's the time to prep for spring.
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Gifts for the gardener
Have a gardener on your holiday list? Larry has gift ideas to make other gardeners green with envy.
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Savor for later
Tips for storing, saving, freezing, canning, cellaring and enjoying your summer garden goodies throughout the winter.
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Flourish or flop?
'Tis the season to review garden's successes and failures to prep for next year
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Best salsa you’ll ever eat
Got tomatoes? Then you've got Larry's favorite way to use tomatoes.
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Foodscaping with Brie Arthur
New ways to enjoy "the greatest hobby that's ever existed"
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Picking and pruning
Some plants grow better with a little less
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Get your garden growing with Larry Opperman, master gardener with the Central Peninsula Garden Club. The central Kenai Peninsula has its own strengths and challenges when it comes to producing your own food and flowers and we're here to help you have a bountiful growing season. If Larry can't answer your questions, he'll bring on guests who can. Email Larry questions at [email protected] the RSS feed here
HOSTED BY
Larry Opperman
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Get your garden growing with Larry Opperman, master gardener with the Central Peninsula Garden Club. The central Kenai Peninsula has its own strengths and challenges when it comes to producing your own food and flowers and we're here to help you have a bountiful growing season. If Larry can't...
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