I didn’t make compost this year because of the blight we had here in southern Maine and I don’t want to use chemicals that would kill the blight but ruin the organic qualities of the mulch. The blight was brought into Maine by the big box stores selling seedlings contaminated with it. I am going to work with my representative to see if Maine can pass a law that would make selling foodcrop seedlings very restrictive. This blight is the same that caused the potato famine in Ireland. A very serious matter.

I started all my seedlings indoors but the blight can travel up to 40 miles and needless to say I lost all my tomatoes. No stewed tomatoes this winter!
So, I am going to try to turn this negative into a positive by writing about it locally and seeing what we as citizens of this fair state can do to prevent it in the future.

I love the pictures of the mulch. I can almost smell it! To me it is perfume.