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My friend in Vermont obtained this weed when someone gave her some columbine from their yard. It has taken over everything. She pulled tons of it out of her garden and threw it in the woods, where it rapidly took hold. She has left it under black plastic and it won't die, and every little...

This beetle has been showing up mostly around fruit. I first found it clustered around high bush blueberries that had bent low, with berries touching the ground. Since then, I've seen it on the raspberries and around the strawberries as well. If it is a destructive pest, I'd like to control...

We are finally starting to harvest a few things, and I am so pleased with some of the new (to us) colorful varieties we tried. Purple haze, atomic red, and Nantes Fancy carrots. Magic Molly, Blue Gold, French fingerling and Augusta potato: Graffiti cauliflower, speckled Romanian tomato...

I did not sleep well last night, - it was hot and the windows were open, and it suddenly struck me as very odd that roosters crow at daybreak. The neighbor's rooster started first, -a faint sound in the distance, and then our three roosters chimed in. I love the sound, and I love that each...

It is finally spring here, and I am pruning my raspberry plants. I know I should cut out the old canes that fruited last year. What I am not sure about: should I cut down canes that are new, but almost broken? Maybe 40% of the canes are bent at a full 90 degree angle. They are not dead, and...

I had a giant banana squash in the basement and decided to cook it up, as one end was starting to rot. When I cut the rotten end off, I was quite surprised to find it was fluorescent pink inside. It is even somewhat heart-shaped! I never saw this before. I hope it isn't deadly poison, as I...

DH took a whole bunch of hot red peppers (Jaluv An Attitude variety, which is not terribly hot) and put them in a jar with salt, water, garlic, and an airlock and let them ferment. Today, he strained off the liquid and ground it up into sauce. The sauce has a gorgeous color. It is spicy, but...

Well, okay, mostly it is because I am lazy and busy with other things, but another reason is that my garden is full of self-seeding poppies. I just don't have the heart to pull them sometimes, even when they are giving a vegetable some tough competition.

I notice a lot of people add their zone under their avatar, which I find helpful. Not sure how to add mine, though. I went to my profile page, I think it said personal information, and I just added my zone right after Fairfield, ME, then clicked save changes, but it says an error occurred and...

In the past, I never had much luck with fruit trees. I saw a pear tree "staceyville" in the Fedco catalog that was from Maine stock and grew hundreds of feet tall. It sounded like I might have success with such a vigorous tree. I was correct, which has been great and not so great. The problem...

We have a lemon plant in the house, which grows enormous lemons. There's this green stuff (we thought it was roots) growing out of the pot (not the leaves). This happened before, and we repotted the lemon and buried all the green stuff. The lemon plant grew bigger, but there is more green...

This is our first year using a hoop house (unheated). I am wondering if people usually shovel the snow off. We've only had one decent storm, but we worried about the weight on there, plus the lack of light getting in. As an experiment, we left one hoop house alone. The other one we shook...

Anyone have experience trying to grow peanuts in Maine, or another cold climate? I've had limited success, but wondered if anyone else experiments with this and has some tips.