Got questions about gardening in Maine?
Ask the UMaine Extension gardening experts!
With years of experience in home horticulture and commercial agriculture, our experts help beginning gardeners achieve successful harvests, encourage gardeners and commercial farmers to donate excess produce to those in need, and use gardening as a vehicle to develop communities.
If you are a gardener with questions about vegetables, fruit, flowers, lawns, woody/ornamental perennials, or landscape trees in Maine:
- Look through our FAQs by clicking on the links below.
- Call, e-mail, or visit your local UMaine Extension county office.
- Submit your questions using our online form. (If your garden is outside of Maine, get the best advice possible for your area by contacting your state’s Cooperative Extension.) Answers to selected questions are posted below.
Recent FAQs
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Why are my tomato seedlings drooping and the leaves curling?
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Why hasn’t my Forsythia not flowered the last three years?
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What would be plants that would grow well on a leach field and in naturalized areas near my camp?
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Do you have a version of a companion planting chart that I could print?