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Garden

  • Seasons change: Going from spring fever to spring frenzy
    the malaise characterized by a painful longing for milder weather, leafy plants and flowers – is gone, thanks to the seasonal sensory pleasures we are now seeing, feeling, smelling and even tasting.
  • Create garden that heightens senses
    The silky petals of a fragrant pink shrub rose; the crunchy texture of a gravel path; a nook where grass rustles and a stream runs. What we smell, see, hear, touch and taste can make a garden walk a wonderful sensory experience.
  • Wait a bit for tomatoes
    Sow tomato seeds for transplanting in early to mid-May. When seedlings reach three to four inches, transfer them to larger pots for proper root development – a six-inch pot can take four seedlings.
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Sprouting garden

Seeds grow happily under basic four-foot shop lights, but make sure the lamps can be lowered and raised to keep the bulbs four to six inches above the seedlings as they grow.

Seeds need good seed-starting mix in which to grow and will develop well in cheap foam cups set in plastic trays. Make a drainage hole in the cups with a pencil.

– Adrian Higgins, Washington Post

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