Their Eyes Were Watching God

Chapter One: Burying the dead - sudden death It's sundown, people were sitting on their porches all day; silent, but as the sun went down they started being talkative.  The people sitting see her walking and make fun of her-remind them of old jealousy.  She said hello, and kept walking on. She talked okay, so they couldn't make fun of that. I think they became speechless.  Men were watching her "curves" She tried to ignore them, put away her overalls and tried to not stoop to their level.  Pheoby Watson says that she's the woman's best friend.  Pheoby defends her and says she's never done anything wrong to them and she goes to take her dinner. Janie is the woman. Pheoby brought her mulatto rice.  Janie really seems to not care what they think.  Tea Cake (Janie's husband) is gone. I assume dead. 

Chapter Two:  Janie was raised by her grandmother, in a house behind the Washburn's (white people) house. They were all close. She didn't know she was black until they took a picture and she looked at herself.  She got hammy down clothes from the Washburn's.  She was telling this all to Pheoby.  Comparing everything to "bees" After seeing Janie kiss Johnny Taylor, her grandma told her she wanted J to be married right away.  When Janie acted like she didn't want to marry the guy (Larry Killicks?) and didn't answer grandma, G slapped J across the face.  She then felt bad and told her to come to her.  Janie was crying sitting in G's lap as G sang over her crying head. G was whipped because her slave owner thought that she had a white baby with her husband (she did, it was rape), she threatened to have her lashed 1 hundred times so she ran away with her baby.  Her baby was raped at 17 in the woods by her school teacher.  That's how Janie was born - rape G said "put me down easy I'm a cracked plate" metaphor. She didn't want J to get hurt and turn out like her mom did (G's daughter)

Chapter Three: Janie and Logan got married in Nanny's parlor of a Saturday evening with three cake and big platters of fried rabbit and chicken.  Came to see Nanny and Washburn and she was not happy. She did not love him. He brought her all the fire wood and things he thought she wanted. G said that he was kissing her feet (like sucking up) and he wouldn't do that for long. J says some people were never met to love and L was one of them Doesn't think she ever could G says since she has everything laid out for her, it doesn't matter.  L smells bad and she doesn't want to turn over because the air will wash up in her face.  Month after G died "She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman. 

Chapter Four: Before their first anniversary was up, L stopped talking in rhymes to J.  Stopped wondering at her long black hair and fingering it 6 months ago he said if he was going to chop wood, she could bring it inside. First wife did it herself. You are spoiled. L went away to go get another mule while J made potatoes facing the road Some nice dressed black man came up her road and asked her for a drink of water. Nice man, said he saved up 300$ to come to a town (from Georiga to Florida) where it was all black people Joe Starks said she didn't seem old enough to be married.  Said she should be more spoiled. Shouldn't be behind a mule plow and shouldn't be making platters He was going to Florida but decided to stay and rest for a week or two.  They sat under the tree and talked every day after that He said he wanted to make a wife out of her. He loved her and she finally got to love too.  She talked to L about leaving. He said no one will take care of her like he does.  Next morning makes her start doing chores because she doesn't do anything around there.  After a big fight, she left and met Joe.  They were married before sundown. 

Chapter Five:  Went on a train.  Joe did not talk with rhymes but bought the best that the butcher had.  Janie looked at him and was proud of what she saw Got to the town and it disappointed them.  Man thought J was Joe's wife. They don't have a mayor in the town. The town was Eatonville, from the beginning. I guess she stays and ends up liking it and forming a life there. Hicks tried to get with J but J wasn't having it. Hicks lied to Cokey and said he was fishing and wasn't with her cause he was embarrassed.  Joe got 200 acres of land, payed cash, for the town Adding a shop and a post office.  Held a town meeting  got lumber for a store, built it, made roads and got 10 families to move in to the town within 6 weeks. Joe was elected mayor, and said that J wasn't going to be making any speeches, that her place was in the home. He seems more caught up in his new house than in his new wife.  Didn't have street lights so he got one. Left it sitting on display for a while then set  a time for lamp lighting.  Joe isn't mean to her, I think he does actually like her, but he doesn't really pay attention to her either.  She was now mayors wife, more duty than she expected.  Made himself a big huge house. Would not move in until it was painted inside and out. Got gold spitting vase for Joe and a little one for Janie Made Henry Pitts leave town for having cane  People are liking how he's handling things

Chapter Six: Some of the men like to tease Matt Bonner about his skinny yellow mule. Though everyone loves the conversation (except Matt), Joe has forbidden Janie to join in. He thinks she is too good for them and Janie resents him for it. She also resents how hard Joe makes her work in the store, especially since he doesn’t do much there himself. The most irksome thing, of course, is his staunch resolution for her to wear a head-rag in the store. We learn Joe does this because he is supremely jealous of other men "figuratively wallowing" his wife’s hair while she is going about her business in the store. But he does not tell Janie this; he simply commands her to wear the head-rag. When Matt Bonner’s yellow mule gets loose, the men decide to catch it and tease it for fun. Janie watches helplessly, feeling sorry for the poor beast. Then Joe does something unexpected. He buys the mule from Matt Bonner. When Matt ridicules the Mayor for it, saying that the mule will probably be dead within the week, Joe reveals that he hasn’t bought the mule to work, but simply to give the poor animal some rest. At this revelation, the others agree that it’s generous of Joe to do such a thing. Janie praises him for his big-heartedness, comparing him to Lincoln freeing the Negroes, and one of the men remarks that Janie is a born orator. The freed mule becomes the talk of the town and the people imagine him doing a great many comic things. Eventually the mule dies with its legs stuck straight up in the air. One man named Lum concludes that the mule, being a spirited creature, saw Death coming and fought to the end – which is why he is found in such an unnatural position. The whole town has a great "draggin-out" for the dead mule, who has become something of a local celebrity, and they put on a hilarious funeral for him. Everyone enjoys the funeral celebration immensely – except for Janie. Joe orders his wife to stay at the store because he claims it wouldn’t be proper for the Mayor’s wife to be seen at such an event. Janie is sullen afterwards, but silent. Joe sees her resentment but thinks she is just being petty and ungrateful for all the good things he does give her. Much of the remainder of the chapter describes the townspeople having fun on the porch of the store, arguing and pretending to court young girls for Joe Starks’ entertainment. Joe, of course, ruins all of Janie’s fun by making her stop watching the scene and go attend to some business in the store. When one of the ladies being "courted" requests a pickled pig foot (ew!), Lum (a guy that helps Janie out in the store) looks for the jar but can’t find any pig feet. Joe comes to look for the pig feet, which was supposed to have arrived yesterday. He can’t find them and he can’t find the bill that came with the shipment. He blames Janie and they get in a fight with her sick of him bossing her around, and him saying he only tells her what to do "’cause you need tellin" and "Somebody got to think for women and chillun and chickens and cows. I god, they sho don’t think none theirselves." Ouch. Eventually, after a number of scenes like this, Janie give up trying to fight Joe because it just makes him more mad and demand her submission. She just hushes and takes it. Janie is only 24 and she’s been married for seven years. By this time, she realizes that their marriage is falling apart. She doesn’t even associate their bed with anything fun anymore; it’s just a place to sleep. Even worse, after these seven years, Joe slaps Janie for messing up his dinner. At that point, Janie realizes that she is saving herself up for some other man, and that she has learned how to hide her inner thoughts from Joe while putting up a front. Joe, for all his sexism, does want peace with Janie but on his own terms. At the end of the chapter, the men at the Starks’ store are lampooning Mrs. Tony (a townswoman) for her impudent behavior, saying that her husband should beat her. Janie speaks up in the defense of women – telling the men how pretentious and ignorant they are for thinking they know everything about women. Joe quickly silences her.

Chapter Seven:  Janie lives with Joe for years in resigned silence. She gets no emotional support from Joe, and his wealth and the possessions he gives her are of no comfort. Janie considers running away but feels trapped. She even realizes that she’s been with Joe half her life – she married him at 17 and is now 35. She learns to imagine herself sitting underneath the comfort of a tree in summertime while she does her work and outwardly submits to Joe. Joe’s age is beginning to show – he’s about thirteen years older than Janie – and to avert people’s attention from it, Joe piles more and more ridicule on Janie, making her out to be old and haggard. He calls her an "ole hen" and stuff like that. Eventually Janie loses her temper and stands up to Joe in the store. She confronts him saying that he should stop pointing out how old she is all the time and maybe comment on himself once and a while. When Joe continues to insult her, she hits him where it hurts, saying, "Talkin’ ‘bout me lookin’ old! When you pull down yo’ britches, you look lak de change uh life." The men in the store say how they’d hate to hear that comment about themselves, which really destroys Joe’s pride. He can’t stand the thought of being pitied by the men of the town, whom he considers inferior to him. Joe reacts with violence, hitting Janie.

Chapter Eight:  After that, Joe moves into the room downstairs and he and Janie hardly talk to each other. Janie doesn’t want to apologize to Joe for belittling him once since he’s been doing that to her for their whole, long marriage. Still, Janie notices that Joe really is getting old. He’s saggy and baggy all over. Unbeknownst to Janie, Joe wants to regain his manliness in her eyes and in desperation, consults with charlatan herbalists ("root doctors") trying to find a cure. Janie also discovers that Joe isn’t eating her cooking anymore. He’s having an old lady, who’s a far worse cook than Janie, make his meals. This really hurts Janie. Janie, who at some level still loves Joe, sobs out her sorrows to her best friend, Pheoby. (This is the first mention of Pheoby within the frame of Janie’s narration.) Janie doesn’t want Joe to think ill of her. She feels like she’s killing Joe. Pheoby advises her to just bear it. There’s nothing Janie can do to take back what she said about his manhood in the store, and it’s far too late to get a divorce. Joe continues to get weaker, but won’t see a real doctor, only the "root doctor." He takes to his bed and gets tons of visitors who pay no attention to Janie. Furthermore, Joe’s new-found friends report to the sick Mayor about his wife and how incompetent she is in the store. In desperation, Janie calls a real doctor from Orlando in to diagnose Joe. He tells her that Joe’s kidneys have failed and it’s just a matter of time before Joe dies. Janie doesn’t want Joe to die alone, but Joe refuses to see her. Janie works up her nerve to confront Joe. She gives him a piece of her mind, telling him that he never gave her the chance to show him her love. She tells him that he’s dying, which terrifies him. He doesn’t want to confront the truth. Janie points out that if he had listened to her before and had seen a doctor, he wouldn’t be dying right now. He never listened to her and never knew her through their twenty years of marriage. Enraged, Joe wishes death upon her. Janie confesses that he’s not the man she ran away with. All she wanted was to make a home for him, but he was too ambitious and demanded her submission. Janie says Joe never let her show him her love because he was too wrapped up listening to his "own big voice." Joe dies trying to rebuke her. Janie contemplates his face in death and feels pity for him. Then she thinks about herself. She goes to the mirror and lets her hair down. Her youth is gone, but she’s still a beautiful woman. Janie is not destroyed by Joe’s death; rather, we get the feeling that she can finally get on with her life. The chapter ends with Janie announcing out of the window that Joe has died.

Chapter Nine:  The community puts on a grand funeral for Joe. Tons of people show up. Janie, however, doesn’t feel grief, only a great sense of freedom. After the funeral, Janie burns all of the headrags that Joe forced her to wear. She lives her life much as she had with Joe. The only public changes she makes are keeping her hair down and allowing herself some indulgence in the gossip on the store’s porch in the evenings. However, Janie still feels lonely and searches for meaning for her life. Her thoughts wander to her deceased Nanny. She decides she hates Nanny for rendering her so unhappy in the name of love, for strangling her dreams. Her new position as a (wealthy) widow draws many men wanting to "advise" her and saying that a woman can’t stand by herself – a woman needs a man to take care of her. Janie laughs them off; she’s not about to trade in her new found freedom for another loveless marriage. Ike Green, a local man visiting the store, warns Janie about her suitors. He says these strange men are just looking to take advantage of her. When she assures Ike that she has no interest in marrying, he says she’ll change her mind because she’s still young. Ike predicts that within a few months she’ll be thinking about remarrying. Ike’s wrong, though. After six months (the mourning period), not one of Janie’s suitors has ever gotten farther than the store. Hezekiah, the store assistant and delivery boy, takes to imitating Joe. Janie is greatly amused by him and feels affection for him. Hezekiah starts taking of the role of Janie’s older brother and helps her manage the store and collect rent from her tenants. Janie revels in her freedom. Pheoby talks to Janie about how she might want to consider marrying, but Janie tells her friend that she’s not staying single because she misses Joe; she just loves her freedom. Janie doesn’t care if the whole town knows how she feels.

Chapter Ten:  One day, the whole town leaves to attend a baseball game in Winter Park, including Hezekiah. Janie tends to the store by herself. In the evening, a man walks in and they immediately hit it off. He’s charming and claims to have come to the wrong town looking for the ball game. Then he invites Janie to play checkers. Since she doesn’t know how to play, he teaches her and she’s delighted that a man thinks it natural for a woman to play as his equal. Janie gets excited about him. He’s everything a girl could want – tall, dark, handsome, not-misogynistic – so different than her old, fat, dominating husbands on every point. They joke around for the whole evening and we learn that this man has a high opinion of women, saying they can do the same things as men – play checkers, walk far, ride a train. Eventually we learn the stranger’s name is Vergible Woods, but he goes by Tea Cake. He ends up helping her close up the store and walks her home. Though Janie is cautious, she finds herself very comfortable around him, as if she has known him her whole life.

Chapter Eleven: Janie worries about the kind of man Tea Cake is. She thinks he’s too young for her, probably just wants to take her money, and other thoughts like that. Janie is determined not to get sucked into another marriage without love so she determines to treat Tea Cake coldly if he ever comes back. He comes back after a week, and Janie can’t keep from being friendly to him. Janie and Tea Cake end up joking around again. They play checkers, and while the store’s other customers are surprised, they don’t seem to disapprove. Tea Cake walks Janie home again, and this time ends up sitting with her on the porch – something Janie didn’t allow any of her other suitors to do. The end up chatting the night away and eating pound cake and drinking lemonade (freshly squeezed by Tea Cake). After the late night snack, Tea Cake takes Janie fishing and she feels like a child gleefully breaking the rules. She doesn’t get back home until early in the morning. The next day in the store, Hezekiah warns Janie that she shouldn’t be walking with Tea Cake at night. Janie asks if Tea Cake is a bad guy or a thief…or married. It seems that Hezekiah’s objection is that Tea Cake never has any money, so he has no place cozying up to a rich widow. The next night when she gets home from work, Tea Cake is waiting for her on her porch with some fish he’s just caught. They go inside and Janie cooks up the fish. After dinner, Tea Cake starts playing the piano and singing, which lulls Janie to sleep. She awakes to find Tea Cake combing her hair. This apparently isn’t sketchy, but romantic. She really likes it and it makes her even more comfortable. He compliments her aspects – hair, lips, eyes. But she points out that he’s probably said the same things to other women, which he says is true. So Janie says she’s going to go to bed. But Tea Cake knows she’s just trying to get rid of him because she’s worried he’s "uh rounder and uh pimp." He’s pretty perceptive. At this point, Janie walks away from him. Tea Cake all but admits he is in love with her. Janie, however, plays it safe. She’s worried that he’s going to make fun of her later for being an "old fool" (she’s twelve years older than him). Janie says he only thinks he cares for her; this is just his "night thought." Essentially, she says she’s too old for him and he’ll change his mind about her by tomorrow morning. Tea Cake leaves. She goes to bed, but not before she checks out her hair, eyes, and mouth in the mirror. Maybe she’s checking to see if he was being honest in his compliments. For one full day, he does not come and Janie tries to console herself by convincing herself that he is trash anyway, spending his time with some other woman. The next morning, Tea Cake returns with the intention of telling Janie his "daytime thoughts." In other words, he hasn’t changed his mind about loving her. That night when Janie gets back from the store, she finds Tea Cake on the porch. They snuggle on the hammock for a little while. Next we know, they’re waking up in the morning and Tea Cake is kissing Janie all over. After Tea Cake leaves to go to work, Janie lies in bed, incredibly happy. After four days, Tea Cake comes back. In this interval, Janie has begun to doubt his love. But he comes back with a car and tells her they are going to town to buy groceries. He wants to take her to the Sunday School picnic on the morrow and he re-declares his love for her when she questions him.

Chapter Twelve:  After the picnic, Janie begins spending more time with Tea Cake and the town notices. They disapprove of her accompanying such a young man around with her husband only nine months in the grave. Sam Watson discusses the matter with Pheoby. Pheoby still believes Janie will marry the undertaker from Sanford, but she doesn’t disapprove of Tea Cake as much as the men do. She points out that Janie is her own woman and can do what she wants. But she agrees to talk to Janie nonetheless. Pheoby goes to see Janie the next morning. Pheoby tells Janie that people are talking, saying that Tea Cake is dragging her off to low-class entertainment like baseball games. Janie admits she always wanted to do that kind of stuff before, it was just that Joe wouldn’t let her. Pheoby wants to know if Janie thinks Tea Cake is just after her money. Janie assures Pheoby that Tea Cake has never asked her to pay for anything. And if Tea Cake does want her money, then he’s no different than the other suitors that the townspeople approve of. Pheoby also cautions Janie about seeing a younger man – they’re usually in the relationship for money. Janie says she intends to marry Tea Cake, sell the store, and start a new life far from Eatonville. She doesn’t want to stick around and have everyone comparing Tea Cake to Joe Starks. Janie explains that Nanny wanted her to live the leisurely life of a white woman, which is what she obtained with Joe, but she felt she was being suffocated. Now that she’s done what her grandma wanted her to, she can go off and live her life the way she chooses. Janie asks Pheoby not to tell everyone her plans to sell the store and go off with Tea Cake. She’ll make it public when she’s ready to. Janie is determined to try for a new life with Tea Cake.

Chapter Thirteen: Janie receives a letter from Tea Cake telling her to come to Jacksonville; she leaves the next morning in her wedding clothes – blue satin picked out by Tea Cake. There are few awake to witness her leaving. She and Tea Cake get married. Janie doesn’t tell Tea Cake about the two hundred dollars she has brought with her, at Pheoby’s urging, just in case things don’t go well. After being married for a week, Janie wakes up to find Tea Cake gone. This doesn’t alarm her terribly because he had said earlier that he was planning on going fishing. Hours pass and Tea Cake doesn’t return. Then Janie discovers her secret stash of $200 is missing. The image of an Eatonville widow named Mrs. Tyler jumps to Janie’s mind. Mrs. Tyler was courted by a young tramp named Who Flung who promised to marry her, then left her penniless in a strange town. Tea Cake eventually comes home that night, serenading her with a guitar and his voice. He assures her that he’s very much in love with her. He’s know plenty of women, but she’s the only woman he ever even considered marrying. He tells a relieved Janie that he did indeed take her two hundred dollars. He had never had so much money in his life before and decided to put on a party. He partied with all the railroad hands and spent all but twelve dollars of the two hundred. In his defense, he says he wanted to come back and bring Janie, too, but was scared that she wouldn’t want to mingle with such common people. Janie assures him otherwise and demands that she’s not left out of the action in the future. Tea Cake tries to win back the two hundred dollars gambling. He is gone almost all night and Janie begins to worry. To distract herself, she comes up with arguments about how Tea Cake is a better man, despite his gambling habit, than all sorts of "so-called Christians" who might criticize him. When Tea Cake finally shows up at dawn, he looks like he is asleep. Janie discovers it is from blood loss. Tea Cake got into a fight with another gambler named Double-Ugly who had lost all his money and accused Tea Cake of cheating. Tea Cake got away with his winnings and two wounds from Double-Ugly’s razor. Janie cries as she cleans her husband’s wounds and listens to his story. He has won back more than just the two hundred. He has a total of three hundred and twenty-two dollars and he tells Janie to take her two hundred back. He vows that they’ll live off his earnings and not depend on her cash or the money she has saved up in her bank account. Tea Cake assures his wife that they’ll go try their luck farming in the Everglades once he recovers. As he falls asleep, Janie feels a "self-crushing love" for him.

Chapter Fourteen: Janie and Tea Cake arrive in the Everglades and Tea Cake immediately finds employment with the "right folks" – those who plan to plant a lot of beans. Then they acquire a house, which is really a shack for migrant workers, but Janie makes it a home. Because there is nothing else to do, Tea Cake and Janie go hunting. Tea Cake teaches Janie to shoot and she eventually becomes a better shot than he. Migrant workers finally begin arriving in hordes. Though they don’t have housing and camp out by fires, the workers make a lively scene with their banjos and jook houses (see Hurston’sdefinition of a jook joint). They all make good money, farming out in the fertile muck of the bean fields. Janie stays at home cooking beans and keeping house while Tea Cake works in the fields. Eventually, Tea Cake starts coming back at strange hours of the day when he should be working. Janie asks him about it, suspecting that he doesn’t trust her being alone all day and he refutes it, saying he comes home because he misses her badly. He asks her to come work with him and relieve his loneliness. Janie agrees and it turns out well. It shows the rest of the people that Janie is not too stuck up to work with the rest of them. And everyone enjoys the capers Janie and Tea Cake pull behind the boss’s back. They become great favorites in the little community. Now that Janie’s working during the day, Tea Cake even helps her make supper in the evenings. Janie reflects happily on her situation and considers what Eatonville would think of her now, mucking around in the fields with Tea Cake and all the migrant workers. She laughs at the thought and rejoices in her freedom. The chapter closes with a scene of three of the migrant workers playing cards, illustrating all of the fun that all of the workers have together, and Janie’s contentment.

Chapter Fifteen: Janie becomes jealous of a "little chunky girl" named Nunkie who keeps flirting with Tea Cake. Tea Cake allows himself to be drawn in to the game. One day in the field, Tea Cake and chunky Nunkie go missing. When Janie finds them in the cane field, they are "struggling." Nunkie takes off running at the sight of Janie. Irate, Janie tries to catch the younger woman, but Nunkie is too quick. At home that evening, Janie and Tea Cake fight; Janie tries to physically strike him, accusing him of "messin’ round" with Nunkie, but he denies it. They continue fighting but eventually they tear each other’s clothes off and their aggression turns into desire. As you might predict, they end up having great sex. In the morning, Tea Cake again denies that he ever wanted Nunkie, saying, "Whut would Ah do wid dat lil chunk of a woman wid you around? She ain’t good for nothin’ exceptin’ tuh set up in uh corner by de kitchen stove and break wood over her head. You’se something tuh make uh man forgit tuh git old and forgit tuh die." Janie celebrates her victory.

Chapter Sixteen:  After the harvest, the migrant workers leave in droves, but Janie and Tea Cake decide to stay. Janie becomes friends with a woman named Mrs. Turner, who comes from a mixed heritage, much like Janie. Even though Mrs. Turner isn’t beautiful (she’s slightly deformed), she takes pride in her own appearance because she thinks it sets her apart from the other black people. Mrs. Turner decides to befriend Janie because Janie is also fair-skinned. In her conversation with Mrs. Turner, Janie learns that the woman is very anti-black and resents having to live with them. She really feels above black people and likes to think of herself as practically white because of her mixed blood. Mrs. Turner thinks that her new friend Janie should feel the same way. Mrs. Turner wants Janie to ditch Tea Cake (who she thinks is too dark) and marry her brother, a scholar who has perfectly straight hair and freely criticizes Booker T. Washington. She arranges for Janie and her brother to meet, but Janie reminds the woman that she is already married and isn’t interested in any man but her husband. Tea Cake overhears the whole conversation. Janie reassures him that she is happy with him and has no intention of marrying Mrs. Turner’s brother. Tea Cake hates Mrs. Turner and doesn’t want her hanging around his house. Tea Cake meets Mr. Turner and his son one day on the street. Mr. Turner is described as a "vanishing-looking kind of man" whose features were "dwindled and blurred." Tea Cake learns that Mr. Turner doesn’t approve of his wife’s behavior, either, but can’t do anything about it. From Mr. Turner, Tea Cake also learns that the Turners have had bad luck with childbirth – they lost several children at birth and only have one son. Mrs. Turner is extremely racist in her perspective on black and white people. She sees white people as gods and black people as worshippers. She "worships" Janie to a certain extent because Janie has more white features than she does. And even if Janie treats her badly and doesn’t encourage her, Mrs. Turner admires Janie the more for it, thinking that gods and idols shouldn’t always be nice to those below them. In Mrs. Turner’s mind, Janie’s snubs prove that she’s worth worshipping. In her mixed up racist-religious scheme, Mrs. Turner hopes that worshipping white people will gain her admittance into a heaven of white people. As part of her idolization of white people and white features, Mrs. Turner fervently hates black people, especially Tea Cake, because she sees them as "desecrators" of her faith. Janie tries to discourage Mrs. Turner from visiting, but she is persistent. Janie and Tea Cake simply ignore her for most of the fallow season. The chapter ends with the migrant workers returning again with the onset of the planting season.

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