Onions are a wonderful plant to grow because, if things go well, you can eat them beginning in June and keep eating them all the way to March. People who start their seeds inside can start them as early as February. Now is the time to plant seedlings or onion sets – which are dried […]
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Maine Gardener: Plant sales have returned
And more farmers are getting in on the action, offering their own seedling sales. But take care you don’t transfer any pests — plant or insect — with your new plants.
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In a new year, new beekeepers get new bees and vow to make some changes
Plus, they make the best of a bad situation by extracting honey. A lot of honey.
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Grow: potatoes
Potatoes are a a major industry in Aroostook County and a good vegetable to grow anywhere in Maine. I prefer growing unusual, specialty potatoes rather than the Kennebec and Katahdin varieties you can buy at any store. Varieties I’m growing this year include Charlotte, a French variety new to Wood Prairie Farm this year; two […]
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Saving a heritage orchard, one apple tree at a time
Massachusetts’ Tower Hill Botanic Gardens gets some restoration help from Fedco Trees and inimitable apple man John Bunker.
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Making plans for the 2021 gardening season
By now, columnist Tom Atwell can grow vegetables in his sleep. This year, he’ll focus on ornamentals.
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A scouring pad – and a recipe – provide more reasons to love coconut
This surprising workhorse scrubber helps you wash up anything and everything. Celebrate your clean kitchen sink with a delectable dish of Coconut Cream with Rhubarb Compote.
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Toast the 2021 Source Award winners with a homemade concoction
And take a moment to reflect on how to cook and eat more sustainably, starting by exercising that muscle that reduces food waste.
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Five essential tools for the vegetable gardener
True gardening hoe: Use the hoe to weed and to create depressed rows for planting seeds. Get one four or five inches wide and about two inches deep. Spading fork: Use it to turn the soil, loosening it in the spring and turning in compost you’ve added. Since we got rid of our rototiller, we […]
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Remember to water regularly
Even before drought seemed to hit every year, watering was essential. As I write this, this spring is already looking drier than usual. Water perennial flower transplants and shrubs every day for the first month or two. Vegetable seedlings also need regular watering. If it hasn’t rained for two days, water your seedlings. Water seeds […]