spring garden gear breaking ground at wheaton mountain gardens 2019

Sunshine for a Day

This has been a slow spring for impatient gardeners. Two weeks ago (5/11/19) we tilled and it wasn’t until last week (5/18/19) it was dry enough to lay rows out. View Article

Indoor Gardening for Winter

The premise of the indoor growing began with marijuana—that became the framework for the indoor vegetable and herb garden. I needed to keep one mother plant going through the winter View Article

ghost pipe in Maine. Is ghost pipe a plant? Is Indian pipe Ghost pipe? What do they call Indian pipe plant now?

Ghost pipe also known as Indian pipe and it’s many uses

Dive deep into the shady underbelly of Maine’s forests where ghost pipe, Monotropa uniflora, lurks as a devious freeloader, sapping life from innocent trees via fungal middlemen. Don’t be fooled by its eerie, ethereal glow; this perennial predator thrives in the dark, pilfering nutrients without a hint of photosynthesis. A touch of mystique surrounds its limited culinary and medicinal applications—handle with care, if you dare.