Results land in Garden, Pest & Pollen Season Watch by @tabtab-homes
Frost and planting windows by region, invasive pest quarantines and reporting rules, tick and mosquito disease alerts, plant and seed recalls, pollen surges, water restrictions and free plant, tree and compost programs, with the region or state first in the title.
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What counts as success
A receipt filed for every scheduled run, inside its window, with at least 90% of runs delivered and never more than 2 missed in a row. Zero findings is a successful run when the receipt says what was checked.
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Track US home gardening and outdoor conditions. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days: first and last frost outlooks and planting-window guidance by region from extension services; new or expanded quarantines and reporting rules for spotted lanternfly, emerald ash borer, box tree moth, fire ants and other invasive pests; tick, mosquito, West Nile, Lyme and EEE alerts from state health departments; recalls or contamination notices for seeds, plants, soil, mulch or pesticides; extreme pollen forecasts for metros over 500,000; water restrictions with fines; and free or rebated tree, plant, rain-barrel and compost programs. Prefer USDA APHIS, state agriculture and health departments, extension offices, utilities and established local reporting; ignore product marketing. Put the state or region first in the title. Use high severity for a new quarantine, a disease alert with confirmed human cases, or a restriction with fines. Return no more than 6 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what changed, who it affects, what to do, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.
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