Except for succession planting – where you plant fast-developing vegetables such as lettuce and beets throughout the season so you can harvest throughout the season – there is now little to be started in the vegetable garden. But that doesn’t mean you have to stop planting. It is a good time to plant pollinator-friendly perennials […]
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This pizza crust is really good
Pizza dough from the new Skowhegan-based The Good Crust both tastes good and does good.
Grow: Garlic
Garlic is a backwards plant. During the high-activity spring season, this tasty member of the onion family can be ignored. Feeding with balanced fertilizer is recommended, when the plants first sprout and a few weeks later, but that takes little time. You can remove the mulch that you put on last fall to protect the […]
What to do, and in what order, when your garden is a mess
Don’t get overwhelmed. From invasives to misplaced plants, we got this.
‘The Maine Farm Table Cookbook’ celebrates the state’s many food producers
Kate Shaffer’s newest cookbook also serves as a guidebook.
This season, try renewing your old strawberry bed
The potential pay-off? Strawberries squared. Boy oh boy oh boy!
Grow: Lettuce – again and again
Using a process called succession planting, lettuce can be planted several times during a growing season.
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 […]
The Halibut Project at Chaval restaurant brings mouth-to-tail-fin eating to diners
For the length of local halibut season, chef de cuisine Kirby Sholl is featuring halibut on the menu from head to rib to ‘wing.’
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.