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4 Garden Goofs

What might seem like a small garden decision can have effects that linger for years. In hopes that you can avoid making the same mistakes, here are four of my garden goofs and how I’ve fixed them. Can you relate?

1 Letting a prolific plant go to seed

A friend gave me a half dozen flowering tobacco seedlings a few years ago—the kind with huge leaves and 6- to 8-foot-tall flower stalks covered in fragrant white flowers. Due to my failure to deadhead, they are now everywhere. It seems that merely walking too close to a spent bloom unleashes a barrage

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