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Avoid Deicing Salt Damage to Garden Plants

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Reeser Manley

With winter comes the potential for deicing salt damage to garden plants. Passing cars and snow plows spray salt-laden slush onto garden beds, winter buds of deciduous plants, and the needles of conifers. Salts slowly spread from driveways, sidewalks, and … Continue reading →

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Looking Ahead: Growing Your Own Vegetable Garden Transplants

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Reeser Manley

(Author’s Note: While growing your own vegetable garden transplants from seed begins in early spring, the gardener needs time to accumulate all of the necessary supplies. With this need in mind, I offer the following advice on growing your own.) … Continue reading →

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Birch Trees, Caterpillars, and Chickadees

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Reeser Manley

Most gardeners are delighted to see a butterfly sipping nectar from a flower in their garden, a delight that may be accompanied by a sense of accomplishment: “My garden is a butterfly garden!” Yet many of these same gardeners become … Continue reading →

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Gifts for the Gardeners on Your List

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Reeser Manley

What would be the perfect gift for each of the gardeners on your list this year? I mean true gardeners, people with a passion for cultivating and nourishing the soil, gardeners who do their own digging and planting. What would … Continue reading →

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Plant Milkweeds to Boost Garden Biodiversity

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Reeser Manley

Garden Biodiversity: The total number of species living in the garden ecosystem. Of course, garden biodiversity cannot be empirically measured as there are many thousands of microscopic species in both the soil and on the garden’s plants. The gardener can, … Continue reading →

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Interplanting Increases Vegetable Garden Biodiversity

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Reeser Manley

(Author’s Note: Many of my columns for the coming winter months will be devoted to sustaining biodiversity in our gardens, both in the soil and above ground. Winter is the season to dream of next year’s garden, and this week’s … Continue reading →

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The Garden in Winter

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Reeser Manley

(Author’s Note: The following essay is composed of excerpts from The New England Gardener’s Year by Reeser Manley and Marjorie Peronto, published in April, 2013 by Cadent Publishing and distributed by Tilbury House Publishers, Thomaston, Maine.) “As I write, snow … Continue reading →

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Protecting Trees and Shrubs from Winter Damage

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Reeser Manley

The ravages of a Maine winter play havoc with the garden’s trees and shrubs. Winter sun, wind, and cold temperatures can bleach and desiccate evergreen foliage, damage bark, and injure or kill branches, flowerbuds, and roots. Hungry mice burrow beneath … Continue reading →

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A Reunion with Old Friends

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Reeser Manley

As I write this column, Marjorie and I are nearing the end of a 12-day vacation that included a day at Longwood Gardens in Kennet Square, Pennsylvania, several excursions into the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, and a day … Continue reading →

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Overwintering Garden Tools

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Reeser Manley

(Author’s note: Marjorie and I are on vacation this week, traveling west through New England into New York, then south for a visit to Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, then on to East Flat Rock, North Carolina, to visit … Continue reading →

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Reeser Manley has a BS in Biology, a MS in Botany, and a Ph.D. in Horticultural Science. He'll help you learn more about gardening based on his 40 years of gardening experience, 15 of those years in Maine. He has also gardened in Georgia, South Carolina, Washington State, and Massachusetts. In addition to writing about gardens, He's a garden photographer and many of my photographs appear in his blog.

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