Steven Johnson, a crops specialist with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with WAGM in Presque Isle about how farmers can use soil temperature as an indicator for when to plant crops. “Warm seed into too cold of temperatures can lead to problems with seed,” Johnson said.
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Kathleen Savoie, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator, and Rob Dumas, food science innovation coordinator and pilot plant manager, spoke with the Bangor Daily News about how to make quick pickles. Unlike standard fermented pickles, quick pickles, also known as refrigerator or quick process pickles, are made “using acetic acid from vinegar” instead of […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Rob Dumas, University of Maine food science innovation coordinator, about kohlrabi, or German turnip. “It’s basically the bloated stem of a cabbage,” he said. “It’s a strange looking vegetable. They come in purple and green and sometimes they have a hard little woody stem coming out of the bottom and […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Morning Ag Clips, The Irregular and Centralmaine.com promoted a new service offered by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. The “Late Blight Hotline” provides text updates related to late blight of potatoes and tomatoes to subscribers. More information about the service is online.
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The Biddeford-Saco-Old Orchard Beach Courier advanced the University of Maine Cooperative Extension plant sale scheduled from 8:30 a.m.–noon May 22 in Springvale. For more information about the sale, which benefits the Master Gardener volunteers program in York County, call 1.800.287.1535 (in Maine) or 207.324.2814.
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Kate Garland, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension horticulturist, appeared on the Maine Public radio program “Maine Calling” to answer callers’ questions about gardening.
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Pamela Hargest, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension horticulture specialist, and Lynne Holland, an Extension community education specialist, talked with Centralmaine.com about the return of plant sales and the increasing number of online shoppers. The story also referenced a bulletin developed by UMaine Extension staff that outlines best practices for plant sale donors and buyers.
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Griffin Dill, University of Maine Cooperative Extension tick lab manager, noted that the reports of dog ticks in Maine so far this spring have skyrocketed in a Bangor Daily News story. Dill noted that dog ticks do not carry Lyme disease but can cause discomfort, especially for pets. He recommends avoiding areas where ticks might […]
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Amalia Harrington, a Maine Sea Grant marine Extension associate at the University of Maine, collaborated with other scientists in the National Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative (ALI) to publish a report detailing how warming waters impact lobsters. The researchers compiled a suite of recently published scientific articles and made the information accessible to the nonscientific community. “A Fishery in […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering a new way for producers and gardeners to receive the latest information and alerts about late blight of potatoes and tomatoes. The Late Blight Hotline from UMaine Extension will send subscribers in the U.S. and Canada text messages with up-to-date late blight information from June 1, 2021 to […]
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