(PCM+) Starting, Sowing and Planting

by Kat Long, Staff Writer / Staff Writer

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April is the month gardeners wait for all year. The month of planting, of safely sowing seeds and of cleaning up the yard … well, for me at least.

All March, I have been holding the hubby (and myself) back from really cleaning up the yard: the mowing, the whacking of old plants and the pulling up of sticks and stems left over from last year. Why? you ask. Well, pollinators to be specific. In these piles of leaves, stems and sticks are ladybug eggs, solitary bee babies, walking stick egg sacs and of course, spider egg sacs. But with the advent of April, let the cleaning (and planting) begin.