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Unless your garden spot is covered with at least a thin layer of topsoil containing humus, it is worth postponing your plantings for a year and devoting your time to making compost and creating soil with it. But once you have soil, and the season for planting approaches, you should have two things ready: the seed and a complete plan of where you expect to plant it.

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I have always loved flowers but had no thought of growing roses until a couple of years ago when my husband set out a dozen rose bushes near in our backyard. These didnt do well but by their failing offered the stimulus I needed to become interested. I set out my first plants in 1995. So fair seemed the rose to me that once started I went all out and now have 115 rose plants and expect to have more.

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Out West April starts the first flurry of outdoor garden activities to be evident this month. The winter snows are receding and the soil is warming and mellowing with the advent of spring. Seeds of cool season kinds of vegetables and hardy annuals can be sown out of doors as soon as the ground can be worked. Vegetables will include radishes, both head and leaf lettuce, carrots, onions, peas, spinach, beets and chard.

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