Pro tips: How to know when your compost is cooking just right

The do’s, don’ts and benefits of composting

You can grow it! Vegetable gardening for beginners

As spring emerges in Maine, the experts offer simple advice, resources and first-hand experience to those who wonder if this is the year to get growing.

Dig into these resources

Easy-to-grow plants for first-time gardeners

Advice for beginning gardeners

Area businesses gear up as gardening season beckons

Maine Gardener: Sixty-three plant species could be banned for sale under a new state proposal

The plants are highly invasive and threaten Maine's native wildlife.

Farmers’ Almanac predicts a flip-floppy winter

The weather in coming months might be a mixed bag, but when you get right down to it, so is the almanac itself. 

Photos: Late July in Farmington