The state agriculture department has released an advisory for farmers regarding the optimal sowing of rabi crops, highlighting the importance of temperature and timing for successful germination.
By now, leaves of deciduous trees are covering beds and lawn areas. The best thing to do with them is to shred with the lawn mower and then scatter back onto beds, or leave on the lawn.
A block east, cars whooshed down a busy neighborhood thoroughfare. But near the garden, single-family houses lined the edges of a peaceful, tree-lined street. Just to the south, children rode their ...