! KEITH O'CONNOR NATE BLAIS
In full bloom
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emember when your mother would tell you to “Eat your vegetables, they’re healthy for you.” Or when your doctor recommended more fiber in your diet and plenty of fruits and vegetables. Springtime is here and Meadowbrook Farm in East Longmeadow might be just what the doctor ordered, at least when it gets to June. Now open for the season, Meadowbrook Farm is in bloom with a wide variety of bedding plants, hanging plants and flowers ranging from impatiens to petunias to begonias. “May is our busiest month for plant sales. We finish with our early spring sales in April with Easter flowers and pansies. People come in May for their hanging baskets, flowering annuals, and vegetable plants through Memorial Day into early June,” Burney said. But you will have to wait until June comes around for the arrival of fresh, sweet strawberries and early vegetables, including cabbage, squash and cucumbers which continue into July along with newly harvested tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and another popular vegetable - sweet corn. “People love our corn which is some of the sweetest you will ever find. All of our corn is picked fresh daily,” Burney said.
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