Garden Update Summer really came in hot this year, pun fully intended after the cold spring and this most recent heat wave! Volunteers and Tidewater staff have been busy planting vegetable and annual flower seedlings while working their way through cleanup and maintenance across the gardens. This is that sweet spot in the season when […]
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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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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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