A sign that spring is nearly here is that the Master Gardeners of Ocean County are again setting up diagnostic clinics at the Stafford branch of the Ocean County Library.

They will take place on the second and fourth Monday of each month from 10 a.m. to noon through September, except Memorial Day. The opener is March 11; the rest of the schedule is March 25, April 8 and 22, May 13 and 20, June 10 and 24, July 8 and 22, Aug. 12 and. 26, and Sept. 9 and 23.