For reasons of science and thrift, adding new shrubs and plants to your garden now is a smart move.
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After you’ve eaten the corn, deploy this genius idea to wring all the good from the corncobs
Make Corncob Jelly. Then, for a special treat, spoon it on Double Corn Muffins.
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Maine Gardener: What will Maine’s forests look like in 100 years?
Biologist Amanda Devine says we’ve already lost the battle to many aggressive invasives, which she described as the second-largest threat to global biodiversity. (The largest threat? Human disruptions.)
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Maine Gardener: Maxims for creating your green space
Make it durable, doable – and have fun.
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Green Plate Special: Never apologize, and other strategies for using up all that zucchini
It’s zucchini season. Don’t fight it. Make the vegetable your friend with these excellent cooking ideas.
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Green Plate Special: Eat your water
Parched? Eating foods with a high water content is a smart way to stay hydrated in the August heat.
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Maine Gardener: Some tomato talk for tomato season
If you don’t know the indigo cherry, you are in for a happy surprise. They’re bountiful, easy to grow and mighty nice to eat, too.
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Maine Gardener: Strategic weeding can help make it a manageable, even mediative, chore
Keeping weeds from going to seed and always having a trowel on hand are starters.
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Maine Gardener: The thing about gardening? There are always surprises
This week it was the berries on the potato plants. You read that right: potato berries.
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Green Plate Special: A Limington farm is making labne, a Middle Eastern yogurt cheese delicious no matter how you spell it
Try labne as a spread with bread and olive oil or in an Israeli couscous salad.