Garden Update Welcome Spring! Early mornings are filled with birdsong, the days are growing longer, elvers are being harvested in the Presumpscot River, and our pussy willows are beginning to show their silvery catkins. Once they bloom, they will provide much needed early forage for newly emerged pollinators. The Market Garden has transformed from a […]
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In this issue… From the President From the Plant Sale Committee Roots: Meet Emily Mazurak Volunteer Spotlight: Yarmouth Community Gardens Ask an MGV: Tips & Tricks for Your Best Garden Yet Upcoming Events MGV Updates From the President “I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day and stand in deep contemplation over my […]
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Garden Update We’ve reached fall! The colors and textures are changing daily at Tidewater as the season shifts. Chipmunks are busy digging endless holes to store their winter caches, and the landscape is alive with seasonal transitions. This time of year highlights plants and shrubs that offer late-season forage for bees and fruits for songbirds, […]
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Garden Update It was a cool, wet, and busy spring which is why our first newsletter of 2025 is a post-Solstice one! Happy summer! Thank you to all who attended and made our 30th annual Master Gardener Volunteer Plant Sale a success over Memorial Day weekend. Every year it gets better, as the focus shifts […]
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Garden Update Welcome fall! The days are shortening and the asters are popping! September brought the late summer weather of our dreams with warm, sunny days and cool nights. Our annual flowers and vegetables were very grateful for the irrigation systems at Tidewater which got us through the unusually dry August and September. So far, we […]
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Garden Update Been hot enough for ya? That fast and hot part of summer has really taken a hold and here we find ourselves in August! How’d that happen? Long days have our vegetable crops, annual flowers and perennials taking off. The monarchs have appeared along with fast growing weeds and hungry deer jumping the […]
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Garden Update Catching up after the late season winter storms, things are finally full steam ahead at Tidewater Farm! Our young garlic endured two rounds of snow and ice and is looking beautiful . We are sowing early season crops and our onions are in the ground. May also brings the first […]
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December 2023 Garden Update The growing season officially came to an end with our final planting in mid-November. Our friends from Khmer Maine and 4-H joined us as we celebrated the beginning of our partnership by planting garlic and eating delicious treats, such as homemade num kroch (or nom kroch), a traditional Cambodian snack. The […]
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As the days grow colder and shorter, we begin to reflect on the season and make notes for next year. Like so many gardeners, we experienced a difficult start to the season with all the rain we received in June and early July. This year, we started many of our flower and vegetable seedlings indoors […]
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This year’s plant sale features a great selection of annual flowers for bedding and containers. Selections include wave petunias and geraniums in several delicious colors, white alyssum, blue ageratum, impatiens of varying shades, tall and short marigolds, blue or red salvia, snapdragons, mix verbena, and the favorite for every garden, zinnias. All come to us […]
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