The Constant Gardner Blog Index
March 2009
March 26, 2009
Vegetables everywhere

Maybe it's Michelle Obama. Maybe it's the economy. But vegetable gardens are everywhere.

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Posted at 01:05 PM
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March 23, 2009
Getting started

Nancy is about to start our vegetable seedlings.

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Posted at 10:15 AM
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March 16, 2009
Flower show wrap-up

The 2009 Portland Flower Show is complete, and a complete success

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Posted at 12:06 PM
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March 13, 2009
A good afternoon

I saw a lot more people at the Press Herald booth today than yesterday at the Portland Flower Show.

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Posted at 05:02 PM
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Busier today

The Portland Flower Show, as the people who watch it regularly predicted, was more crowded this morning than opening day Thursday.

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Posted at 11:40 AM
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Heading back again

It looks like another perfect day to head to the Portland Flower Show.

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Posted at 09:48 AM
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March 12, 2009
Good times

Thursday afternoon at the Portland Flower Show was great, including talking to some readers at the Press Herald booth.

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Posted at 05:54 PM
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Big crowds

I made it to the Portland Flower Show about 10:15 this morning, about 15 minutes after the scheduled opening, and it already was bustling.

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Posted at 12:34 PM
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Off and running

The preview party of the Portland Flower Show Wednesday night was a celebration, but now we have the meat of the show.

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Posted at 09:30 AM
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March 11, 2009
Personal preview

I spent an hour wandering around the Portland Yacht Services building on Fore Street, where they are setting up the Portland Flower Show.

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Posted at 11:49 AM
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March 10, 2009
Back for the flower show

I'm back in Maine after a week in Florida and ready for the Portland flower show.

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Posted at 11:47 AM
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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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