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June’s entrance accompanied a painful frost on the mornings of the 1st and 2nd. Temperatures bottomed out in the low 30s in traditional cold spots, including my hillside gardens in Jackson, and though most tender plants were covered, it still nipped the tops of potatoes and the buckwheat cover crop.
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