MAGIC OF GARDENING
PLANNING GARDEN FUN
GARDENING DOESN’T HAVE TO BE SO METHODICAL!
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BY B E T H A N Y O ’ R E A R
ebruary is here and you probably have a you’re ahead of the game if you’ve remembered what stockpile of well-thumbed seed catalogues crops need to be rotated where to suppress disease and a mishmash of last year’s seed packets and promote great harvests. But what’s missing at the ready. If you’re like me, you’ve already from this methodical approach: fun! Don’t get me calculated and recalculated, how many wrong, there’s great pleasure in growing your own seeds or seedlings per row. Maybe you’ve optimistasty vegetables and seeing bees and butterflies on tically decided when to colorful flowers but making pull your first sowing and gardening fun takes a little You’ll need well-drained soil and at least six replace with heat-loving bit more effort and if you’re hours of full sunlight. summer tomato and not careful to plan for it pepper transplants. And now, you may find you have 64
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