2025 Spring Gardening Webinar Series

Kick off the 2025 gardening season with a series of 11 gardening webinars led by UAF Cooperative Extension Service agent Casey Matney.
Grow your gardening knowledge. Kenai Peninsula Cooperative Extension Service agent Casey Matney will teach a series of 11 gardening webinars to help get your garden ready for this year.
The free classes will be held online via Zoom at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, from April 8 to June 17.
Topics include seed starting, soil testing, raised beds, planting potatoes, hardening off seedlings and transplanting them, as well as composting.
Matney is the agriculture and horticulture extension agent for the Kenai Peninsula. He can be reached at camatney@alaska.edu and 907-262-3443.
Pick one webinar or register for them all. Click on each Zoom link to register.
The videos will be available to those who have preregistered for the class.
Can't make a class? Preregister and a link to the video will be emailed to you after the class.
Date | Title | Registration Link |
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April 8 | Seed starting from scratch | Zoom Link |
April 15 | Large seed starts: corn, pumpkins and potting soil | Zoom Link |
April 22 | Soil testing and Interpretation for garden and farms | Zoom Link |
April 29 | Working with fertilizers and compost | Zoom Link |
May 6 | Raised rows, raised beds and how to make them | Zoom Link |
May 13 | Seeding directly into the garden | Zoom Link |
May 20 |
Planting potatoes | Zoom Link |
May 27 |
Hardening plants and transplanting into the garden | Zoom Link |
June 3 |
Warming things up with plastic, glass and plastic mulch | Zoom Link |
June 10 |
Herb gardening inside and out | Zoom Link |
June 17 |
Composting: No time to waste | Zoom Link |