Independence Day is many things to many people, but to northern New England gardeners, early July brings the beginning of the fruit and vegetable harvest.

Of course, one never knows what that might mean, come July 4, particularly in a year such as this. Brutal winds and freezing temperatures lingered into late spring, with frost in early June, and six weeks of negligible precipitation.

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