UMaine Extension publications offer tips on fiddlehead harvesting, spring gardening, pest management
The University of Maine Cooperative Extension offers information and recommendations on a variety of springtime activities.
Resources aim to educate readers about picking and eating fiddleheads, pruning trees and shrubs, starting seeds at home, and protecting yourself from insects and Lyme disease.
Visit the UMaine Cooperative Extension Publications Catalog for bulletins including:
- Starting Seeds at Home
- Growing Vegetables in Container Gardens
- Facts on Fiddleheads
- Facts on Edible Wild Greens in Maine
- Growing Rhubarb in Maine
- Growing Strawberries
- Growing Fruit Trees in Maine
- Raspberry and Blackberry Varieties for Maine
- Propagation of Plants by Grafting and Budding
- Planting and Early Care of Fruit Trees
- Designing Your Landscape for Maine
- Pruning Forsythias in Maine
- Japanese Beetle
- Ticks
- Lyme Disease
- Insect Repellents
- Mosquito Management
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