The gardeners' growing season starts in April for cool-weather crops. A good time to plant tender vegetables and flowers is after Mother's Day, presumably following the last frost. The most popular flowers are impatiens, marigolds, geraniums, and perennials. Many people prefer to grow what the deer don't eat, however, and it is getting harder and harder to find plants they dislike. Vegetable growers have success with such things as tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, and corn.
Herb gardens do well here and are becoming more and more popular.
First frost can be expected after mid-September. Personal Touch Welcome visits families who have relocated to or within town with a basket of helpful information about the community and free gifts from local merchants and professionals. New parents in Redding are congratulated with a gift basket. Branchville is a section of the southeast corner of the town of Ridgefield. It uses the 544- Georgetown phone exchange, but its residents consider themselves Branchvillians, not Georgetowners.