Grow: Cucumbers

Tomato planting time – and cukes, and more – has arrived

Here's our guide to some of the vegetables you'll want to plant now.

Grow: Corn

Whitefield students get hands-on aquaponics experience with school garden

Plants and seeds from the Whitefield Elementary School are being sold from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

Maine Gardener: An argument for annuals

Yes, you need to buy them and plant them every year. But there are a few good reasons to do so.

Grow: Beans

Maine Gardener: Plant sales have returned

And more farmers are getting in on the action, offering their own seedling sales. But take care you don't transfer any pests — plant or insect — with your new plants.

Grow: onions

Grow: potatoes

Saving a heritage orchard, one apple tree at a time

Massachusetts' Tower Hill Botanic Gardens gets some restoration help from Fedco Trees and inimitable apple man John Bunker.