Try being your own florist when dressing up your home for the holidays.
Maine Gardener
New books plant seeds in growers’ minds
Whether for yourself or as a gift, these books offer how-to advice and inspiration for all sorts of gardeners.
The Maine Gardener: Roots of a gardening writer’s career go back to Cape Elizabeth growers
As a young married man, his lessons in weeding, tilling and mulching came from his wife and her grandparents.
Maine Gardener: Put lawn and garden to bed for the winter
Keep them healthier and reduce the spring workload by mowing, raking, weeding and pruning now.
Maine Gardener: Embrace the dark by creating root cellar
You don’t need an actual cellar to store vegetables and fruits over the winter, but you should follow some rules.
Maine Gardener: Plastics in the garden? It depends
There’s room for gray in green arguments.
Kalettes may be coming soon to a garden – and dinner plate – near you
Johnny’s Selected Seeds in Winslow has been selected to sell the new hybrid, which is a cross between Brussels sprouts and kale.
Making the garden that comes with your new house your own
The first step? Wait and watch.
Volunteers tangle with invasive plants at Cape Elizabeth arboretum
Plans for the Children’s Garden move forward at Fort Williams Park.
Now is a good time to treat yourself to a special tree or shrub
Post-Labor Day discounts at nurseries may let you add some unusual plants to your landscape.