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 […]

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 […]

Using a process called succession planting, lettuce can be planted several times during a growing season.

The work comes in the fall, which is the best time to plant or divide them.

Landscape your home and grow vegetables, sure. But don’t forget the cutting flowers.

Cucumbers like heat and moisture. In Maine, this is the right time to plant them – when the danger of frost is gone and, we hope, our temperature will reach the 70s most days. Cucumbers want a lot of organic matter in the soil, so work in some compost before planting them. They also are […]