Jemison Offers Memorial Day Weekend Gardening Tips on WVII
John Jemison, a soil and water quality specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, gave early season gardening advice on WVII (Channel 7) over Memorial Day weekend. Jemison warned it may still be too soon for some crops. “The first thing that I would say that you don’t want to do is to try and go out and buy some transplants like tomatoes or peppers at this time of the year, bring them right out of the greenhouses and try to think you’re going to go put them in the ground. That’s going to be bad,” Jemison said, adding while some plants can withstand cooler temperatures, others may not bounce back from a cold night. He said plants such as carrots, leafy greens and anything from seed could probably be planted now.