Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens At Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, you’ll discover stunning ornamental gardens and exceptional natural beauty, waterfalls, and incomparable stonework and sculpture. Miles of trails allow you to experience waterfront and woodlands that are quintessentially Maine. You’ll find events and programs for many interests, year-round; and the seasonal Kitchen Garden Café and Gift Shop offer delightful – and delicious – selections. top of page Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association Community Supported Agriculture in Kittery Maine. Touching Earth Farm National Geographic's Green Guide, includes sustainable food, car buying, enviromental news and more. Seacoast Harvest Guide 2010 Get Real Get Maine! Finding Maine Food, Farms, Fairs and Events The Maine Department of Agriculture is in the process of overhauling our website. You are receiving this email because you are a constituent or customer of the Department. Your responses will help us create a website that better serves the community. We are asking you to help by taking a few minutes to answer the questions found in our on-line survey. The survey link is found at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7JSLCX3. Please respond by November 1, 2010. Thank you. Sarah Scally Assistant Horticulturist Maine Department of Agriculture 28 State House Station Augusta, Maine 04333 (207)287-3891 www.maine.gov/agriculture/pi/horticulture top of page I am continuing as the Native & Invasive Plant Chairman for our state. I was recently asked to take part in a study of garlic mustard (alliara petiolata), an invasive plant that was recently spotted in Gardiner, ME We have to wonder if it is our area as well. Have any of you seen it? Would you be on the alert next spring when it blooms and is easier to spot? Links to all the info are included at the bottom of this email and I will print photos to give you at the first District board meeting. Thank you! Carol Here's a link to photos and descriptions of the plant: Click here: http://vitalsignsme.org/sites/default/files/content/ui_alliaria_petiolata_121509.pdf Link to sighting by students in Gardiner: Species Alliara petiolata was found by ES#3 on 2011-05-24 | Vital Signs top of page Basil downy mildew - Recently basil downy mildew was identified on basil plants in a greenhouse in Maine. This destructive disease, first found in the northeast in 2008, produces an abundance of spores and can spread quickly. Growers should look for yellowing on basil plants that may look like a nutritional problem. Upon closer examination plants infected with downy mildew will have purplish gray spores visible on the underside of leaves. For pictures and more information visit http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/NewsArticles/BasilDowny.html Hemlock woolly adelgid - Hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) continues its spread in coastal Maine. Adelgid crawlers are still abundant, so if you are living/recreating or working in or near HWA infested areas please bear in mind the risk of spreading the insect this time of year. Check your hemlocks for signs of this pest, especially those within 20 miles of the coast. If you do find HWA, please let us know. To date HWA infestations have been confirmed in the following towns: Brunswick, Harpswell, South Portland, Bristol, South Bristol, Westport Island, Arrowsic, Georgetown, Phippsburgh, Eliot, Kennebunkport, Kittery, Ogunquit, Saco, South Berwick, Wells and York. More information about the life cycle of HWA can be found at: http://www.maine.gov/doc/mfs/HWALifeStages.htm. Asian longhorned beetle - A small infestation of Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) was confirmed in six red maple trees in Boston, MA over the Fourth of July weekend. The trees located across the street from the Arnold Arboretum, a showplace for trees and their beauty, have since been removed and chipped. If ALB is in Maine, we would expect adults to have begun emerging by this date. If you think you have found ALB, please try to capture and/or photograph the beetle and then contact our office or use the Maine Department of Agriculture on-line report form (www.albmaine.org, right hand column). The Maine Department of Agriculture will be conducting a survey for ALB at Sebago Lake State Park on Saturday August 14. If you would like more information about this event contact karen.l.coluzzi@maine.gov Health Photo Sharing 'width' is a duplicate attribute name. Line 1, position 37. You’re invited to visit and enjoy NGC’s new public Flickr site (or “photostream”) at www.flickr.com/nationalgardenclubs. The recently launched site--designed to create and nurture a photo archive for garden club members nationwide--showcases award-winning gardens, floral arrangements, conventions, news and projects. Anyone can view the NGC site simply by going to the link listed; you do NOT need to be a Flickr member. Photos on the official NGC photostream are licensed appropriately through Creative Commons; this allows the images to be used for publicity purposes in the news media as well as by NGC-affiliated clubs.
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife has a wealth of information to share with you.
My Nature Conservancy Protecting nature, Preserving life - Where does your water come from?
New England Wild Flower Society has a variety of events schedule throughout the year in different locations. The mission of New England Wild Flower Society is to conserve and promote the region’s native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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CORN GLUTEN MEAL: A NATURAL PRE-EMERGENCE HERBICIDE
see the article at this link: http://www.extension.umn.edu/yardandgarden/ygbriefs/h531cornglutenmeal.html
Farm2Chef is farm direct sustainable produce from New Hampshire and Maine. Farm2Chef was born of a common need: To produce great food. We started in 2004, linking over two dozen Maine and New Hampshire growers and producers with three dozen local chefs. Our success that season was part of what would become a national movement. Eat Local, 100 Mile Diet, Slow Food, all share the same basic mission. For us, farmers and chefs alike contributed time, expertise, advice, and most of all, a commitment to superior produce. We always anticipate a better year than the last, though each year since has brought challenges - not the least of which has been fuel costs, and now the current economic climate. Growing local, eating local, and keeping your money local makes as-much sense in 2009 as it did in 2004, perhaps even more so. Once again we seek to expand the products and produce available by partnering with a greater number of farms, providing locally-grown produce and products from farms and farmers we know - and visit. Produce and products they feed their families with, and that's the best guarantee of quality.
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Plant Explorer Longwood Gardens has launched its Plant Explorer website. Plant Explorer allows you to look up any plant name and provides unprecedented access to Longwood's plant records, plant images, garden information and interactive maps.
AgResource Company website includes information including climate impact, farming info, seminars and presentations, consulting services, newsletter and more.
Longwood Gardens has launched its Plant Explorer website. Plant Explorer allows you to look up any plant name and provides unprecedented access to Longwood's plant records, plant images, garden information and interactive maps.
Gardening for people of all ages, abilities and lifestyles. Garden Forever
Giant Hogweed: http://www.maine.gov/agriculture/pi/pestsurvey/pestinfo/gianthogweed.htm
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March 2011 Asian Longhorn Beetle Update Legislators and Administrators
Hemlock Wooly Adelgid Updates
SAF and ANLA Three U.S. chrysanthemum breeding companies have joined with SAF and ANLA to sponsor a free educational webinar for growers on chrysanthemum white rust, and advice on how to avoid it in their 2010 mum crops.
The Maine Department of Agriculture is currently testing its new Got Pests?
Tomato Late Blight - No signs of late blight were found on tomato crops in greenhouses in Maine this year. For an update on the late blight situation in other states and links to new factsheets on late blight and distinguishing late blight from other tomato diseases see the New England Greenhouse Update message posted on June 25 http://www.negreenhouseupdate.info/index.php/june/873-late-blight-on-tomato
Environmental Working Group's 2011 Sunscreen Guide
I know you count on sunscreens to protect you and your family from sunburn and to help prevent sun damage and skin cancer, so please take a moment to check out our most comprehensive Sunscreen Guide to date. You can look up your sunscreen or find out our top-rated sunscreens.
Click here to check out this year's Sunscreen Guide!
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SHARE YOUR GARDEN CLUB PHOTOS VIA FLICKR®
In addition to the official NGC photostream, the Flickr site features several affiliated “groups.” The groups, which can be public or private, offer garden club amateur “photobugs” an easily accessible channel for uploading, pooling, categorizing and displaying their owns photos. A major goal of these group pools is to make a wide variety of images available to garden club members everywhere for use in local, state, regional and national newsletters, brochures and websites, as well as educational demonstrations and training. High quality photos from the groups may also be selected for inclusion in the main public NGC photostream site and digital archive.
Initial groups include:
www.flickr.com/groups/NGC_conventions/
www.flickr.com/groups/NGC_flowershows/
www.flickr.com/groups/NGC_projects/
Additional groups will be created as interest in garden club photo sharing grows. Group rules and licensing information are available on the group sign-up pages.
To join a group and contribute photos and comments to the group pool, you need to have both a Yahoo! email account (Flickr is affiliated with Yahoo!) and a Flickr account. Both are free, quick and easy to set up, and accessible on the Flickr sign-up page at www.flickr.com.
For more information on photo sharing through Flickr, please contact Robin Pokorski, NGC Photo Archives Chair, at robinp@juno.com.
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Weather Related Links
Hello Maine gardening enthusiasts,
Here's a fun, free and very useful web site your loyal following is certain to love to help them better plan their gardening activities...something I know we're all eager to do after this snowy and cold Winter!
We just launched a web site last Fall that I believe will be a hit with your lifestyle audience, www.weathertrends360.com which provides year-ahead daily weather forecasts for every inch of the Planet. The Yard Day alert feature is cool as users can input their perfect weather day (75, sunny, light winds) with a web and e-mail alert when those conditions are most likely - days or months from now anywhere in the world.
Before you dismiss us as a technologically savvy groundhog (ha) we have been doing this for 9 years with huge clients like Wal-Mart, Target, Agway, Orchard Supply Co, Kohl's, AutoZone, Orchard Supply, Coca-Cola, Hershey’s, Clorox, Johnson & Johnson, Anheuser-Busch, 3M, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley (over 150 others) to help them better plan using our year-ahead forecasts to determine how much seasonal product to buy, where to put it, when to promote it, advertise and run markdowns.
We've won 6 major business technology awards in the past 2 years including #5 on Forbes list of America's Most Promising Companies out of 10,000+ companies. Our short and long range forecasts are independently audited by Forecast Watch and determined to be the most accurate in the industry.
Our new consumer site (free and very easy to use) launched last Fall and we already have over 10,000 users in 158 countries. It's www.wt360.com that has proven very valuable to folks planning just about everything from vacation/leisure travel, wedding planners and garden enthusiasts...and it’s free! Our unique content is already cropping up on consumer sites like pollen.com (allergy sufferers), tangotraffic.com, AAA.com, CharterBusConnect.com, etc. and soon on Better Homes & Garden!
Warmest Regards,
Bill Kirk, CEO & Co-founder
Weather Trends International
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Bethlehem, PA 18017
(O) 610-807-3585 (C) 484-903-6887
E-mail bkirk@wxtrends.com www.wxtrends.com
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Gardening Blogs
Gardener's Journal, the official blog of Gardener's Supply
Tips and Hints
Less Toxic Halloweens
Gorgeously Green a guide to a green lifestyle
Find a hurt animal or bird? Near us? Call Maine Inland Fisheries & Wildlife 287-8000. They can refer you to rescuers. Don and Carleen Cote have a Wildlife Care Center in Vassalboro 445-4326, and rescue baby racoons, hurt skunks, etc. Avian Haven in Freedom 382-6761 rescue eagles to hummingbirds and reptiles. They need volunteer 'ambulance drivers' to shuttle hurt animals, and will help pay for gas.