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q&a with ken drusehow soon to start the cleanup?Q. From Kate in the website comments: Kate is in Long Island, so in 7B. She says she is so anxious for spring. She keeps going outside to see if her hellebores are blooming. She’s been getting sporadic warm days and then going back to freezing, but on the warm days, should she start clearing some of the leaves off the garden beds or leave everything there? She’s ready to do spring cleanup, but she doesn’t want to remove some kind of warmth or protection if that’s what’s better for the plants.
Ken, I don’t suppose there’s actually a perfect right or wrong answer here, but what’s your sort of theory for this?
A. Now, you just got that question, right? You just got it.
Q. Yes.
A. It’s the beginning of February when we’re talking, so I would say leave it because the groundhog says [laughter] we’re going to have more winter. It’s funny. When the days gets warm, it’s like, “Oh, O.K., I’m ready. I’m going to go out there and start cleaning up. It’s spring.”
We could have plenty of snow, and it could be
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