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Winter Gardening
Ok, the title might be a tad bit misleading. I am notsuggesting that you actually garden during the winter but youshould be using this time to plan your upcoming garden.As you look out at your yard and garden area during the coldmonths of winter, let your thoughts run wild and you will beamazed at what images you can conjure up. You might even want totry some of your new found ideas this spring!1. Pour through garden catalogs, flip the pages and folddown the corner anytime you find something you like. Go back toit often until you decide what new plants and flowers you woul...
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...dlike to try this spring.2. Purchase a gardening book or magazine. Look at whatother people are trying in their gardens and see if their ideasinspire you to try something new.3. Look out your windows and try to visualize how youwould like your yard and garden to look like. Study thesun....notice the shady spots.4. Make a list of what is important to you, in otherwords, what do you want from your yard and garden? Do you wantto create a patio area for entertaining, a vegetable garden soyou grow all of your own vegetables, a quiet area for relaxing,or maybe an area that will ...
...attract wildlife. Anything ispossible but it is important to recognize what you want beforeyou actually start any gardening project. Ultimately, knowingwhat you want will save time and money!5. Take lots of notes and draw any ideas you might comeup with.(even those ideas that wake you up in the middle of thenight!)6. Of course, visit online nurseries to see what they have tooffer. Many sites offer suggestions and interesting gardeningarticles as well.Before you know it spring will be here, you will have a shovelin your hand, and you will have a plan! Always HappyGardening!
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