Use your backyard to plant species that will help slow Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction.
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Maine Gardener: This year’s Maine Garden + Marketplace a scaled-back version of the usual show
Blame lingering impacts of the pandemic, and don’t look for display gardens. With luck, next year…
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Maine Gardener: A tad early, the gardening season gets off to a gentle start
Plant vegetable or flower seeds, prepare your tools, grow lettuce.
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Maine Gardener: The forest edge is a critical environmental zone, and you can enhance it
For many wild creatures, living on the edge has benefits.
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Green Plate Special: Mexico, Paris, China, Norway – Maine’s got ’em. Up next: Aleppo, Maine?
A gift of locally grown, harvested, dried and crushed Aleppo pepper delighted this spice-loving, locally minded cook.
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Maine Gardener: Botanist makes the case for healthy hunter-gatherers
Foragers hold the key to greater nutrition, argues Arthur Haines of Native Plant Trust. But he concedes, with almost 8 billion people to feed on Earth, wild food has its limits.
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Maine Gardener: Snow-schmo, it’s time to prune trees
Winter is the best season, whether the trees are evergreens or deciduous.
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Ericaceae: The family you’ve never heard of but may well have growing in your own garden
The heath family, as its commonly known, includes rhododendrons and azaleas, and was the subject of a talk from the Maine Landscape & Nursery Association. ‘
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Maine Gardener: When you plant a tree or shrub, get to the root of the matter
Healthy root systems are key to growing a successful plant.
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Coffee waste does amount to a hill of beans. To dispose of it, many Maine roasters and coffee shops go green
Composting spent grinds and chaff, via commercial operations or customers who garden, is common practice.