Planting & Gardening Resources

LINKS TO OUR PLANTING AND GARDENING RESOURCES:

Waldo SWCD Tree and Shrub Planting and Growing Guide

Complete Bare Root Planting Guide

How to Plant a Tree

Learning Actvities for Planting and Growing a Tree

Landscapes and Gardens for Maine   This portal of resources from Knox-Lincoln SWCD includes Extension Fact Sheets on care of fruits and vegetables, trees and shrubs, and detailed profiles of many of the native woody plants on our list. There is also information about buffer plantings, meadow establishment, composting - lots of stuff!

Selecting, Planting and Caring for Trees and Shrubs in the Maine Landscape UMaine Cooperative Extension’s guide. Most everything you need to know is here. Link

Our free checklists of practices for a healthy landscape (residential and woodlands) See our section Conservation Landscape Certification.

UMaine Pollinator Garden Guide and Certification   Step by step guide to planting for pollinators. https://extension.umaine.edu/gardening/pollinator-garden-certification/

OTHER RESOURCES FOR GARDENERS

Wales Park Community Garden This garden offers support and advice for beginning gardeners, plots, and a demonstration pollinator garden with labeled plants and information. Located on the corner of Lincolnville Avenue and Main St. in Belfast. Web resources coming soon on our site.

Frost date calculator

Garden size calculator

MOFGA’s seed starting calendar

From University of Maine, Cooperative Extension:

Find your local Extension office

Soil testing

Victory Gardens for ME video series

Master Gardener Program

Maine Home Garden News

-Publications: Starting Seedlings at Home, Testing your soil, Tips for purchasing soil for gardens, and so many more!

-Browse upcoming workshops

Post harvest

-UMCE’s cooking & food preservation webinar series

-Bulletin Storage Conditions for vegetables

-Waldo County Bounty - Give & Take Tables

From Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners (MOFGA):

- Gardening Trainings

- Vegetable Gardening video series