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  1. Thanks for sharing these gardening tips! It’s definitely a good idea to cut back the dried brown foliage from last year to give our plants a fresh start. Wearing protective gloves is essential, especially when dealing with prickly leaved plants or shrubs.

  2. Hello Brenda
    I really appreciated this post. I don’t know much about plants and gardening but would like to know more. Thank you for sharing your tips and experiences with growing. Looking forward to trying some of these ideas!

  3. We have snow and the ground is frozen so it’s another 4-6 weeks before any of these suggestions can apply to me. We have a very short growing season and wind 24/7 in March usually.

  4. Yesterday we broke a record here in SE Wisconsin with temperature at 73 degrees and sunny. Then the warm front passed on to the East and a cold front plunged our temperatures 50 degrees. Today it’s 16 degrees right now and winds out of the NW at around 25 mph. No working outdoors in a tee shirt today! We had several days of mild weather and it felt great to be able to rake up the yard where dead leaves come to magically multiply, clean up the nut shells left behind by the squirrels I feed, and thinking about what I would love to do around the yard, if only I had an army of gardeners to do all the digging, planting and building of paths and raised garden beds and several thousand dollars to see it made reality! Oh well. The annual visits to our favorite nurseries with my gardening friends will take place in mid-May. For years I’ve sat down and make a list of plants I want to buy and have designs for the front and back yards, but somehow most of the items on the list don’t make it home with me. I am generally a pretty disciplined person, but not when I’m let loose on acres of land with tons of plants, shrubs and trees.

  5. Brenda, thank you for your timely tips today and always. My husband planted red potatoes today…they will be so good with the homegrown beans and tomatoes. I hope this summer is not as hot and dry as last year.

  6. Yay ! Thanks for this reminder. Excited with anticipation as when the proscenium curtains begin to open up. Will make first trips to nurseries in about one week.

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