Here’s what to look for: height, color and pollinator attractions.
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Green Plate Special: With fresh cheese like ricotta, you’ve gotta buy local
Fortunately, Maine has at least a few cheesemakers who’ve mastered the process.
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Maine Gardener: Why Maine Audubon has added some non-native plants to its sale
It wasn’t a snap decision. Not only is the definition of ‘native’ evolving, but there are also real-world habitat benefits.
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Grow: Late lettuce
We have been eating leaf lettuce daily since early May, because we planted seeds of a leaf lettuce mix in March under a cold frame – basically a small greenhouse. That planting has grown tired, and we are now eating from a second planting I sowed in early June. That will get old, too, so […]
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Maine Gardener: Invasion of the jumping worms
It sounds like the title of a horror film, but these invasive Asian worms are very real, and they are very bad for your garden.
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Green Plate Special: Eat locally, seasonally – and take a page from Persian kitchens
Cookbook writer and eco-conscious chef Louisa Shafia is visiting Rockport this week to cook and teach.
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Discussions about farm succession plans can be complicated and fraught
A spoonful of sugar – in the form of chocolate-carrot snacking cake with vanilla yogurt glaze – and help from a regional nonprofit can ease the pain.
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Maine Gardener: Growing a gardener
With the help of MOFGA, a one-time black thumb has become a gardener.
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Pick: Cherry Tomatoes
Cherry tomatoes are ripening now. They are tasty, plentiful and require almost no work in the kitchen. In fact, they’re good as a snack just as they are should you walk by them in the garden and want to sample. All cherry-sized tomatoes are indeterminate, which means the vines keep growing and producing new fruit […]
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Lobster shells promote healthy gardens
Compost made from ground-up lobster shells slowly releases nitrogen and builds strong cell walls in plants.