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Basic Gardening Tips You Can Actually Use

By: Tom Wait

Published: December 17, 2008     Exclusive Article
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• WAIT as long as possible before cutting plants to the ground. Leaves are food factories, so let them naturally yellow and die.

• SELECT some spring blooming bulbs from our large stock of tulips, hyacinths, narcissus, etc., for planting this month.

• GIVE your flower beds and borders a thorough cleanup to destroy winter hiding places for disease and insect eggs, thus eliminating trouble for next year.

• If you have not already done so. lift flowering plants for potting now, bat make sure the plants arc watered thoroughly before you dig them

• Clumps of chrysanthemums in flowers may be dug up and potted to bring fall color effects into the house or other parts of the garden.

• EARLY—blooming wild flowers can best be transplanted now. Give new plantings a thick covering of leaves or peal for winter protection and mulch next spring.

• Gather leaves and garden refuse for compost. Decomposition will take place faster in piles made while we still have some warm days. Diseased or insect infested refuse should be burned rather than composted

• ACT—Good intentions never grow roots or produce, bloom on a part. Neither docs wishful thinking. It takes more to be a gardener. It takes a six letter word ACTION. Gardening doesn't have to be complicated or involved. A person can become a gardener by the single act of buying a plant and putting it in the ground. But the important point is this: The principle requirement of gardening Is ACTION Act now. during the peak of the fall planting season and you will enjoy the results for many years to come.


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