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Maine Gardener: Gardens can be our salvation right now
Yes, we must stay home to keep ourselves and our communities safe. Luckily, our gardens are contained in the word “home.”
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Maine Gardener: Mommy, I’m bored! Have you heard that lately?
While we all wait out the coronavirus at home, consider a garden project with the kids.
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Maine Gardener: Skip the Off. Plenty of plants and good bugs can help repel the bad ones
Skip the tansy, too.
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Maine Gardener: Now’s the time to prune your shrubs and small trees
In March, the plants are still dormant, the weather isn’t (usually) too bad, and you have an unobstructed view of the branches.
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The Maine Gardener: Waiting is wearisome. Will the season ever begin? A gardener’s lament
When all else fails, put on some tunes and sharpen your tools.
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Maine Gardener: The ruinous emerald ash borer is here. Is there anything you can do?
A state and city expert weigh in on ways to try to repel, or at least slow, the destructive beetle from killing all of Maine’s ash trees.
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Maine Gardener: Here’s a gardening project while you wait for tomato season
You can grow tiny, tasty (and trendy) microgreens inside under a grow light.
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Maine Gardener: If you can’t beat invasives in toto, beat them in part
Gardeners and wildlands managers, don’t give up if you can’t eradicate invasive plants. Even slowing their spread is helpful.
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Maine Gardener: The king of the elms is dead. Long live the heirs to the throne
Yarmouth’s beloved Herbie succumbed to Dutch elm disease 10 years ago, but thanks to amateur arborist John Hansel, you can buy a clone of the grand old tree and plant it in your yard.