Raised-Bed Gardening Is Page Farm and Home Museum Brown Bag Lunch Topic
Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100
ORONO — Gardening with raised beds — a good way to grow healthy vegetables in areas with poor soil — is the topic of a brown bag lunch and lecture at the UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum June 11.
Featuring Donna Coffin, Extension educator with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Piscataquis County office, the free public talk and discussion is from noon to 1 p.m. on the Orono campus.
June is a good time to start a vegetable garden with cold-sensitive crops like tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. For people with soils that are lacking in one or more characteristics necessary for vegetables to thrive, raised beds can offer an easy solution, according to Coffin.
In her presentation “Growing Vegetables in Raised Beds,” Coffin will discuss raised-bed construction, soil mixtures, best vegetable varieties and raised-bed maintenance. Participants will receive handouts on raised-bed gardening.
Bring lunch and be ready to learn about an easy method of gardening, says Patricia Henner, director of the Page Farm and Home Museum. Additional information is available by calling the farm and home museum at 581-4100.