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Starting a Garden? Here Are 8 Rookie Mistakes to Easily Avoid!

December 16, 2022 · 8 min read
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How many of these rookie mistakes have you made in your garden?

Every spring, when everything starts to bloom, you want flowers in your garden… A vegetable patch doesn’t sound too bad either. We get it, we want all this as well.

But as we’ve learned in the past, plant care means much more than just picking up a rosemary plant at whole foods and making sure the soil stays moist. It’s happened to the best of us.

Every year around spring and summer, you go to the farmers market and pick up some mint, basil, and a few other pretty flowers, only to have them wilt away after a couple of weeks. If you’re lucky, you’ll even harvest them once or twice.

But for the most part gardening can be a difficult task. Well, not to worry, we came up with your perfect solutions. Here are 8 common rookie mistakes that gardeners make…and how to avoid them!

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    January 5, 2023 at 12:54 am

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    January 14, 2023 at 9:12 pm

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