Here are some tips for which types to grow and how to plant them.
Maine Gardener
Dressing up your garden for a party
Tips to ready your landscape for guests.
Enjoy your pick of blooms to grace garden and home
When planting, consider flowers that look beautiful outside and in a vase.
How to have berries as local as your backyard
The Big Three for small fruit in Maine are strawberries, blueberries and raspberries, and there are three secrets for success.
Rhododendron or azalea? Or both?
Here’s the lowdown on hardiness, colors and timing.
You don’t need a lot of land to grow vegetables
Containers will do nicely.
Deep freeze in December may pay off on the pest battlefront
We might get lucky with fewer winter moths posing risks to trees.
Tom Atwell on buying seedlings at the farmers market
Compare, bargain shop and discover unusual varieties.
Asparagus and rhubarb announce the spring
The two best perennial vegetables come into their own in May, a great time for planting as well as eating them. Asparagus is a classy vegetable, justifiably popular in high-end restaurants, whether prepared with sauces, shaved into salads, or just lightly steamed and served with butter and pepper. Rhubarb is more down-home, a spring tonic […]
Is new necessarily improved?
Local nurseries enumerate this year’s harvest of new plants.