42 Seasons, Still Growing ; Plants and Advice Are Plentiful at Cote's Farm.

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Until last week, Roger Cote had never seen a drier spring. For the first time in a lifetime of vegetable farming, Cote plowed his 5 acres of stoneless fields beside Route 9 in March and planted corn by the third week of April. Three weeks later, of course, nearly a foot of rain drenched most of York County, washing away roads and bridges and many of the small seedlings that had sprouted in Cote's fields.

But late last week the sun had returned, and the small greenhouses at Cote's farm stand on Meetinghouse Road were buzzing with customers full of the energy that animates early season gardeners. Surveying a patchy field of corn, the farmer was inclined to look on the bright side of things - as might be required of someone who has run a one-person vegetable farm for 42 seasons.

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42 Seasons, Still Growing ; Plants and Advice Are Plentiful at Cote's Farm.

"If we get some heat, it'll be ready in the middle of July," he said.

Cote, 63, has spent most of his life tending this plot of land on either side of Meetinghouse Road, a coup...

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