Cold Frames and Cover Crops Keep Garden Growing
• By Janine Pineo • Snow in May does not a happy gardener make, but it hasn't stopped me from getting a little jump on the vegetable garden. One blustery day in late April, when I was … [Read More...]
Perennials Easy on the Wallet When Started from Seed
• By Janine Pineo • The Earth has awakened. The muffled quiet of winter gave way to a cacophonous chorus of blackbirds every morning and the sweet harmony of peepers each night. This … [Read More...]
Year In, Year Out, Spring Brings Much to Do
• By Janine Pineo • The whoosh of air caught my attention. Up, down and around I looked as wave after wave of rushing sound washed over me. Out of the southwest sky they appeared, their … [Read More...]
A Barrel of Fun – and Water
• By Janine Pineo • New isn’t always better. That crossed my mind Tuesday as I was being sprayed with rainwater gushing from the new rain barrels set up Saturday in anticipation of … [Read More...]
A Gardener’s Obsession: Water
• By Janine Pineo • Every gardener obsesses about one thing. Water. Too much, too little, too often, too seldom - it's enough to drive a person to, well, drink. A visit to a gardening … [Read More...]
A Crop That’s a Little Bit Nutty
• By Janine Pineo • I am nuts. It's not hard to admit. Being a gardener can make you that way. Usually it's because something isn't cooperating: rainfall, temperature, wildlife. Then … [Read More...]
Recipes from Garden Maine
Fiddlehead Soup
I tend to make a lot of soups, usually because there are odds and ends of things in the refrigerator or garden or freezer that ought to get used. The creation of this soup was really no different. I had fresh fiddleheads and some ham left from a … [Read More...]
ENTER TO WIN
Double the Fun
For us, spring is like Christmas and that means we love giving good things away to help celebrate the season. With our last contest prize just shipped off to Alisa - we hope you enjoy 'The Maine Garden Journal', Alisa - we decided to offer up a prize of a different sort, one where you can write … [Read More...]
WILD MAINE
Ephemeral Spring
Sanguinaria canadensis is a North American native that comes and goes quickly, with the fragrant flowers lasting no more than two days and its bloom time about two weeks in early to midspring. Known … [Read More...]
