UAF offers gardening manual.

AuthorPounds, Nancy
PositionInside Alaska Business

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service has published a new sustainable gardening manual. "Sustainable Gardening: The Alaska Master Gardener Manual" was adapted for Alaska from similar publication from Oregon State University. The 490-page manual, which sells for $40, provides information on soils, fertilizers, berry crops, pruning, composting, flowers, greenhouses, lawns and plant diseases. Home gardeners may find the manual useful, UAF officials said. It also will be used in the Cooperative Extension's master-gardener training programs.

Alaska contributors include Michele Hebert, the Cooperative Extension Service's Tanana...

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