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This season, try renewing your old strawberry bed
The potential pay-off? Strawberries squared. Boy oh boy oh boy!
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Grow: Lettuce – again and again
Using a process called succession planting, lettuce can be planted several times during a growing season.
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Grow: Eggplant
I never ate eggplant growing up. I think it was simply my family’s preferences. I have since grown it successfully, but not every year. Eggplants like warm weather. It takes soil temperatures close to 80 degrees for the seeds to germinate, which doesn’t happen much in Maine. So unless you started your seedlings on a […]
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Time to sit back and enjoy the peony show
The work comes in the fall, which is the best time to plant or divide them.
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Fill your house with flowers, one of life’s small pleasures
Landscape your home and grow vegetables, sure. But don’t forget the cutting flowers.
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Grow: Cucumbers
Cucumbers like heat and moisture. In Maine, this is the right time to plant them – when the danger of frost is gone and, we hope, our temperature will reach the 70s most days. Cucumbers want a lot of organic matter in the soil, so work in some compost before planting them. They also are […]
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Tomato planting time – and cukes, and more – has arrived
Here’s our guide to some of the vegetables you’ll want to plant now.
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Grow: Corn
Corn is many people’s favorite summer vegetable, eaten on the cob at summer picnics, as part of lobster bakes or on any ordinary evening for dinner. I have grown corn semi-successfully in the past on occasion, but I have never figured out a way to keep raccoons from decimating the crop just before it reaches […]
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Maine Gardener: An argument for annuals
Yes, you need to buy them and plant them every year. But there are a few good reasons to do so.