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Dear Garden Problem Lady, by Wendy Blair The top leaves and lower stems of my New England Asters, usually the star of my September garden, are brown and shriveled. I have watered often. Ideas? Not really. They could have been burned by our many weeks of searing sun, or even drowned from recent torrential rains. Asters are so strong, however, they should survive. Make sure they get bone meal and compost in the spring. For winter, should we cut our Autumn Joy Sedum back to the ground, or leave them alone? If left intact in winter should we cut them back in spring? Sedum is very hardy and needs little care. Birds enjoy their seed heads, so why not attend to any cutting back for size until spring? If your sedum is getting too large, it’s easy to dig up and divide them then, to make more plants. Is it a good idea to put spent coffee grounds onto one’s garden? Spent coffee grounds certainly look good – a rich dark brown, the color of good rich earth – and they’re free. Now and then one hears of using them this way – it’s old-fashioned -- and possibly harmless. There have been chemical analyses of coffee grounds – they are vegetable, after all. They contain tiny traces of many metals and chemicals, including small amounts of nitrogen. The reasons horticul-
