Plant tomatoes and peppers when daylilies start to bloom. Direct seed your morning glories when maple trees have full size leaves. Plant pansies, snapdragons, and other hardy annuals after the aspen and chokecherry trees are leafed out. When dandelions are blooming plant beets and carrots. Crabgrass seed germinates when forsythias are in bloom.
Silver maples show the lining of their leaves before a storm.
Slugs will come out in droves prior to rainfall. Expect rain when dogs chew on grass, sheep turn face first into the wind, oxen sniff the air, and hogs are restless. When the white butterfly flies from the southwest, expect rain. It is an old folktale in the USA that local winter weather may be predicted by observing the width of the color band on some caterpillars. When bees to distance wing their flight, Days are warm and skies are bright.