Posts Tagged ‘garden maintenance’
A Wedding Machine – Goats!
Last week I discovered a brush-clearing business called Scapegoats, located just down the road from me in West Kennebunk, Maine. A team of seven goats help homeowners, municipalities and farmers tidy up fields, parks and yards by devouring invasive plants, including poison ivy and poison oak. Goats devour Japanese Knotweed and Asian bittersweet, but aren’t…
Read MoreSpring Garden Maintenance
Last Sunday was my first chance to putter about my gardens, enjoy the bursting new plant life, and do some spring clean-up. As I mentioned earlier, not only has my schedule been insanely busy, but spring has also been very slow to arrive in Kennebunk, Maine. Even though it was cold (in the 40’s) and…
Read MoreJump-Start Gardens in Spring
With spring around the corner, I’m itching to get out in my gardens. Colorful flower gardening catalogs and magazines can only satisfy my gardening cravings for so long. At this time of the year I feel like a ship’s captain scanning the horizon for land – except I am searching for small green shoots. The…
Read MoreGarden Maintenance Tip for Spring
Squelch the Uprising! This is the time of the year when some ‘uppity’ perennials decide to push their way out of the ground, exposing tender roots to damaging wind and light. Actually, it’s not really the plant’s fault – thawing and freezing soil lifts them skyward. Our job as gardeners is to ‘put them back…
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