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Here are the seeds you should start indoors in Maine
Gardening season in Maine won’t begin for a month or so, but that doesn’t mean you can’t start preparing for a fertile crop.
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7 tips for fixing your winter-ravaged, ripped up and gravel-filled lawn
Regardless of whether you rake the gravel off your lawn or hire someone else to, here are a few tips for spring outdoor clean up that you may find useful.
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How to survive mud season in Maine
The amounts of silt and clay in Maine's topsoil creates the perfect conditions for 'mud season' to form during the spring thaw.
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Raccoons are the most common source of human exposure to rabies in Maine
Rabies is endemic in Maine's raccoon population, and with more than 120,000 of the critters in the state, they often encounter people.
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Add days to your growing season with cold frames
Cold frames are fairly simple to make and can increase your growing season by one to three months.
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Another deadly tick-borne disease is now endemic in Maine
Cases of babesiosis -- a disease carried and transmitted by deer ticks that can cause fever and chills -- have skyrocketed in recent years.
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Now is the time to prune your fruit trees
Pruning your fruit trees this time of year presents less danger of interfering with the plant's natural hardiness.
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Before Hollywood discovered the ‘Cocaine Bear,’ northern Maine had the OUI goat
In 1986, a religious fraternal ceremony, alcohol and a goat combined for one of Fort Kent’s most memorable arrests.
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It’s not pleasant but bed bugs are part of Maine life
Bed bugs are small, flat insects found all over the world that feed exclusively on the blood of sleeping people and animals.
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Maine will need weeks to determine impacts of Ohio train derailment on air quality
Trace levels of vinyl chloride, which can cause dizziness, nausea and respiratory problems, could be in Maine's air.
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