Growing A Greener Kenai

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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 answer your questions, he'll bring on guests who can. Email Larry questions at growingagreenerkenai@kdll.org.Get the RSS feed here

  1. 4D AGO

    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.

    59 min

  2. APR 4

    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.

    58 min

  3. MAR 21

    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.

    1 hr

  4. MAR 7

    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

    59 min

  5. 11/15/2025

    Gifts for the gardener, 2025

    Got a gardener on your shopping list? Larry's got ideas for getting a green thumbs up!

    1 hr

  6. 09/20/2025

    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

    1 hr

  7. 09/06/2025

    Garden End Of Times and Recipes

    * I can't show the full recipes as read on the show. If you will email me at growingagreenerkenai@kdll.org, 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 coming from his garden.

    1 hr

  8. 08/02/2025

    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 also discuss how indigenous peoples throughout the millennia stored their food.

    1 hr
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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 answer your questions, he'll bring on guests who can. Email Larry questions at growingagreenerkenai@kdll.org.Get the RSS feed here

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