People Places & Plants, a gardening magazine based in New Gloucester, is cutting back the number of issues it will be producing.

The magazine did not publish its summer issue and is combining its fall and winter issues, Paul Tukey, the magazine's founder and publisher, said by telephone this morning.

Tukey said the combined fall/winter issue has been printed and should be mailed out next week.

Tukey said the state of the overall economy, especially in print publications, has made it impossible to make a profit in issues that appeared in late summer, winter and fall.

"It's the spring when people are thinking about gardening," Tukey said. "The May issue has always made the most money."

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