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Planning Your Garden

With proper planning, a garden should get better every year; the key is to organize your design ideas in advance. Make a sketch of your lot, using different colors for sunny and shady areas. Then think about one section at a time: the view from your windows... your soil and weather conditions... a coherent color scheme. And keep track of this years plan in a garden diary, to use next year.

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" I'm Bob Vila from home again with proper planning a garden should get better every year the key is to organize your design ideas and events. Make a sketch of your lot using different colors for sunny and shady areas then think about one section at a time. The view from your windows -- soil and weather conditions a coherent color scheme and keep track of this year's plan in a garden diary to use next year. I'm Bob Vila good luck with -- your home improvement project. "

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