Compost made from ground-up lobster shells slowly releases nitrogen and builds strong cell walls in plants.
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August is an excellent time to evaluate your garden
Too much green? Here are some blooms that can solve that.
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Grow: Raspberries
We are in the middle of raspberry picking. Of the fruits we grow, these are my favorite – both for their flavor and because they are simple to grow. We planted our bed about 40 years ago, and while it needs to be weeded and the canes that produced fruit removed every fall, growing raspberries […]
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Not so much Grow, as Mulch
I won’t be planting much in our gardens over the next few weeks, but I will be adding something from now until the end of the year. What I’ll be adding is leaf mold, a cross between compost and mulch. When I first started gardening almost half a century ago, I used a rototiller at […]
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A midseason update from the garden
Everything is early. The flowers have been profuse. Irrigation has been crucial.
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The list of invasive plants banned for import and sale in Maine soon to grow
A committee has been meeting to decide which plants should be on the list, the state’s second.
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Do the patriotic thing: Grow a garden
For a whole host of reasons, gardening is good citizenship.
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Grow: Perennial seeds
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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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 […]
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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.