Alaska – Greenhouse

Alaska is divided into five different regions which have completely different environments . I lived in the Interior region of Alaska, in a town called North Pole, Alaska, which is about fifteen miles south of Fairbanks, Alaska. This region extends from the artic circle south to Denali Park

The environment here is very harsh in the winters, with temperatures dropping to -60 degree for several weeks out of the year and average temperature measuring between -20 and -30 for several months during the winter. With temperatures like this, the result is very short growing seasons. The growing season usually starts the first week of June, when soil temperature gets above 65 degrees, and normally ends the last week of August.

With such a small growing season the Alaska gardener must learn to extend the growing season. During my stay there, I managed to extend my growing season by almost three months. Here is how I extended the growing season:

• 1. Seedlings were started indoors indoors around the first of May. I would keep them close to a window for sunlight till the first week of April.