We’ve been gardening in Maine for years now. But this year, the garden isn’t behaving the same way. Here are some thoughts on when your garden is growing slowly.
Growing season is upon us — and it’s time to rethink your planting strategy. This planting hack makes caging tomatoes a breeze. If you’ve ever used the round tomato cages prevalent in garden centers all over, you know the struggle. You’ve carefully planted the tomatoes in the bed but now must contend with the challenging …
With a sweet-tart strawberry-rhubarb filling and a buttery, crumbly topping, this Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble Pie is an early summer treat. Summertime is when we throw open our windows and step out our doors, seeking adventure on Maine’s peaks and in Maine’s waterways. It’s also when we grow things. Our garden is just beginning to grow. …
Planning a garden? Here’s what you need to know about how to prepare raised bed gardens for vegetable growing. Hint: there’s yearly work to make them ready. Long before it was trendy, I devised plans for raised bed gardens and built them in my backyard. They were about 3-foot-by-3-foot, anchored with posts buried in the …
Wondering what to plant in your kitchen garden this spring? These 8 herbs to plant will liven up your cooking all season long.
Eating seasonally means eating vegetables and fruits according to the growing season. Why is this important?
This robust Roasted Tomato Marinara Sauce with Garlic, Onion and Basil makes good use of in-season tomatoes and is perfect for freezing to enjoy later. Confession: I keep glass jars and use them to store things. This old marinara jar was perfect for storing my homemade marinara sauce in the fridge or freezer. When we …
The peas are growing! Doing a second planting of sweet peas was a gamble — it’s something we’ve never tried before and with Maine’s short growing season, there’s a chance the frost will happen before the plants can mature enough. Still, so far so good. The plants are growing quickly, seeking the string trellising to …
It’s mid-August and our mid-summer’s produce is a dream. Come gaze at our garden, and see why I am so excited about a plant I nearly pulled. I’d worried that some of our cucumbers just didn’t grow. That’s happened to us before — last year with baby bok choi, this year with my favorite peppers. …
Ready to use in just over an hour, these Easy Dill Quick Pickles are a great way to enjoy pickled cucumbers sooner than later this summer. When I first started pickling things, I didn’t really know the difference between canning pickles and making refrigerated pickles, though the refrigerated ones seemed — at the time — …
