The 60-degree factor: What to do when the temperature tells you it's time to get out in the lawn and garden

(ARA) - Like an alarm clock for our senses and our gardens, the thermometer swelling to 60 degrees awakens us in the spring. We all get the irresistible urge to get outside, birds are chirping, animals come out from hibernation and plants start unfurling their leaves and flowers to color our world.

'The 60 degree factor' signals us that the end of large fluctuations between day and night