Garden, Pest & Pollen Season Watch

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.