When we decided that we wanted to do something with part of our land, we learned that this part of Maine is nowhere near as fertile as the Midcoast.  What we charitably call "soil" is a devilish Pleistocene glacial till - sand, clay, rocks, and boulders left behind by the retreating glaciers of the last Ice Age some 20,000 years ago.  Packed rock hard by the weight of those 2.5 mile thick glaciers, our till makes gardening something only the fittest people would consider doing without heavy equipment.  We do have a garden though, wrested slowly from the till a small patch at a time.  We grow the usual summer vegetables – peas squash, beans, and corn.  We also try our hand at the more unusual – fennel, quinoa, eggplant, and heirloom tomatoes.