So sorry to hear about that! Fortunately, right now, we are still very early in this year’s growing season. If you are starting seeds indoors, you can start with anything that is 9-10 weeks to last frost or later. If you don’t have an indoor growing space, we can highly recommend using winter sowing techniques for things like broccoli, cabbage, lettuce/greens, chard and many other things. (We don’t have a great article on this technique, but you can google it and it’s very easy.) You can also direct sow a lot of things into your beds like carrots, lettuce & greens, radish, beets, spinach, turnip and many other things. If you’ve got some time, we’ve got a ton of articles that will aid you. Plus, check out our social media (YouTube & Facebook) as we’re regularly putting out updates on what we are up to and other helpful info!

For Wasilla, we generally advise using our “default” 2A-4B schedule and planning for a last frost of June 1st. While much of Anchorage and the valley are “technically” zone 5, and “theoretically” have a last frost date of May 1st, growing on the very edge of a growing zone can be very challenging. We’ve heard many reports of people having troubles being too aggressive (i.e. aiming for May 1st) and losing their plants to late frosts. If you were trying to achieve optimal timing, you could probably shift average last frost dates a couple of weeks (e.g to May 15th or May 21st) and that would likely coincide with seasonal realities.