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With each new season, we start fresh with high expectations for a bountiful harvest of vegetables and mouth-watering fruit, fragrant flowers to pick for bouquets and healthy plants to attract beneficial insects to the garden. As the months pass, it seems one problem after another crops up.

Mother Nature sure knows how to throw a curveball. She can dish out balmy, 75-degree weather one day, then switch it up to 107 in a heartbeat. Cold and windy steps to the mound next, followed by “What’s next?” from the pitch hitter.