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May 31, 2007
Veggie update

The vegetable part of the garden is going well – if slowly. Our peas are up and looking good, but have not gotten to a second planting. We got most of the tomatoes and peppers in and under row covers last weekend.

We did not get everything done because our youngest granddaughter, Alana Atwell, born May 5, and her parents spent Sunday with us, making her first trip outside of Massachusetts, and that cut short our gardening time. You have to set your priorities.
We still have to plant cucumbers, pumpkins, winter and summer squash, beans and some of the potatoes that just arrived on Monday.
The strawberries are in blossom, Nancy cleaned out the raspberry beds – I feel just a bit guilty.
The only garden food we are eating is still asparagus. But more food is only a few weeks away.

Posted at 04:15 PM

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Tom Atwell has written the Maine Gardener column in the Maine Sunday Telegram since the spring of 2004. He has worked at the Press Herald/Sunday Telegram since 1974, about the same time he started gardening with any seriousness.

He gardens with his wife, Nancy. She not only is the better gardener of the pair, but also knows the botanical names of plants. They have two grown children and three grandchildren.

Tom was born in Skowhegan, grew up in Farmington and graduated from the University of Maine with a BA in journalism. His goal each year is to have continuous compost from his three compost bins, continuous bloom in his low-maintenance garden and more fruits and vegetables on his family table than the garden pests eat in the field.



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