About Today: Get Started Gardening 3/2/11

From Jen Hubley, your About Today Editor Yesterday, I saw my first crocuses of the season. They were white, so of course I first assumed that they were snow. I can be forgiven for thinking this, since it snowed so much this year that I seriously thought about skis as a permanent mode of transportation.

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