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We are happy to announce or new Garden Classified Section.  This a brand new Free Service here at Glenns Garden. This is a free classified section for anything garden related. Buy or sell seeds, Sell your plants, Sell your tools, if you have free stuff related to gardening list it here ! There is even a section for bartering.

I hope you will take advantage of this great new service and get the word out about what you have to offer. You can find the classifieds on the navigation bar on the left or just Click Here

To update Glenns Garden and to keep my readers informed I have added a new live weather feature to the site. Readers will now be able to see the live weather here at the urban garden by checking on the left hand column of the site. Just below the live weather is a Weather Archives Section this is yesterdays weather and by clicking the link at the bottom you will be able to go back and see the weather each day for the whole year.

This new feature will let the reader get a better perspective of what we are doing at the urban garden. It will also be available for anyone researching the weather in Chicago for the past year.

Please feel free to leave a comment on any other features you would like to see on Glenns Garden.

I am starting a new site for the new year . http://gardenscrapbook.com This site will be a collection of news ideas tips about starting your own garden scrapbook. I wanted an area where I can keep up with all my plans and ideas as well as a place that can show others an easy way to organize their own garden scrapbook. This will be a great place to copy ideas or to make suggestions. It is sort of a fluid blue print that others can follow to help then in organizing their gardening diaries,gardening journals or garden scrapbook.

I would also say that it will be my own garden planning tool which I will share with everyone. Please stop in and visit and leave us a comment. I would very much like to hear from you and what you think. Garden journal are a must for the serious gardener and I think that a scrapbook is a great and fun way to keep one.

You may have noticed the countdown to spring in Chicago in the right hand column and seen the date as March 19th. You may be saying wait the first day of Spring always arrives on the 21st of March. Well that is not necessarily true. Traditionally the beginning of spring has been celebrated March 21 but now things are changing. Calendar makers and astronomers now say that the spring season starts one day earlier, in all time zones in North America. That would mean we would celebrate it on March 2oth.

The vernal equinox or spring equinox occurs when the sun rises exactly in the east travels through the sky for 12 hours and sets exactly in the west. Our calendars are not exactly attuned to the tropical year which is the actual length of time it takes for the earth to complete one orbit around the sun. So strictly speaking the first day of spring depends on your location. In the years 2008 and 2012, if you live in Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific, Mountain and Central time zones you will see will see spring begin on March 19. And in 2016, it will start on March 19 for the entire United States.

If you would like a bit more information please check out this article Why Has Date Changed for Start of Spring?