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. until approximately 6:30 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.

Webinars
Date	Title	Registration Link
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