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    PHENOLOGY: ~Be Observant~

    Nov 30, 2018 4 minutes
    By Jane Fowler

    know when the time is right to sow our beans or plant our potatoes? When looking in any gardening book, we find complicated charts that involve counting back the required number of days from our area’s last expected frost date for each type of vegetable. But any chart with suggested planting dates can’t possibly take into account the nuances of my small patch of ground in my hilltop garden. I know from experience that I’m unlikely to get the late frosts that plague plots lying lower in the valley. I also know some of my neighbors will enjoy snowdrops a week ahead of me and will be the first to welcome back the songbirds.

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