TEMPLE – In less than two hours, 210 ham dinners, complete with mashed potatoes, biscuits and butter, were served at the Temple Town Hall and $3,365 was raised for 21-year-old Nate Childs…
The Opinionated Gardener’s test crop of the Ramapo tomatoes is ripening. The official word is that the famous Jersey tomato has made it through a tortuous summer in Temple, Maine, with flying…
It’s mid August and the garden is awash in weeds. Some of the tomatoes are rotting on the vine; others are being devoured by slugs; none are ripening, save for a few…
Hemerocallis fulva aka the ‘Orange Daylily,’ the wonderfully wild flower that fills the July landscape off-road or in-garden…. After years of taking this pest free, grows in-any-soil, slowly fills all-the-empty-spaces-around-it perennial for…
You’ve probably not thought about it but those hybrid tomato seeds that you are getting ready to plant in pots of Pro Mix, more likely than not, were grown in another country,…
Propeller Plant Neglect. The ability to withstand extreme neglect. It’s the defining characteristic shared by those houseplants known as “succulents.” From the fleshy leaves of the “Jade” and “Aloe,” to the spiny…
Irises. The Opinionated Gardener grows three kinds: the “common” bearded irises that most refer to as German irises and the “less common” beardless Siberian and Japanese irises. She prefers the Siberian, finding…