Vegetable gardening season is here: Ready, set, go
Are you a new gardener? Follow this timeline and our tips to get started this season.
By Tom Atwell
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Abundant pea pods in columnist Tom Atwell s garden in July, 2020. When Atwell was a boy, his uncle used to say, plant peas on Patriots Day in order to harvest them for July 4. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer
Timing is everything. It is true in sports, cooking, publishing, buying and selling stock, and proposing marriage.
It is also true of gardening, which depends on nature. The year progresses from frozen hibernation to warmth and lushness.
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ORONO University of Maine Cooperative Extension and University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension will offer a webinar for home gardeners about managing weeds in existing perennial and ornamental plantings from 6–7:15 p.m. April 28.
“Weed Management for the Perennial and Ornamental Landscape” will focus on the most common weeds in Maine and New Hampshire gardens and detail effective control strategies for each. UNH Extension landscape and greenhouse horticulture field specialist Emma Erler will lead the workshop.
Registration is required; a sliding scale program fee is optional. Register on the event webpage to attend live or receive a link to the recording. This is the second in a six-part spring gardening webinar series offered every other Wednesday through June for Maine and New Hampshire gardeners. For more information or to request a reasonable accommodation, contact Pamela Hargest, 207.781.6099; [email protected]
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ORONO University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Beef Producers Association will offer the fourth annual Cattlemen’s College online, with presentations available for viewing April 19 to May 3.
Workshop topics include adequate beef cattle nutrition and conditioning, selecting quality bulls, processing yields and processor expectations, selling beef in Maine, cooking with home-ground beef, and recent research results. Scheduled presenters are from the University of Maine, UMaine Extension, University of Kentucky, West Texas A&M University and California Polytechnic State University.
The event also will feature a youth beef-judging class and silent auction.
The Cattlemen’s College is free; a $5 donation to the MBPA youth scholarship fund is optional. To register to receive the link for access to all presentations, visit extension.umaine.edu.
Cattlemen’s College to begin April 19
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ORONO University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Beef Producers Association will offer the fourth annual Cattlemen’s College online, with presentations available for viewing April 19 to May 3.
Workshop topics include adequate beef cattle nutrition and conditioning, selecting quality bulls, processing yields and processor expectations, selling beef in Maine, cooking with home-ground beef, and recent research results. Scheduled presenters are from the University of Maine, UMaine Extension, University of Kentucky, West Texas A&M University and California Polytechnic State University.
The event also will feature a youth beef-judging class and silent auction.