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Reader Stories: How I Made My Garden Lower Maintenance and More Enjoyable

New gardens don't always turn out as planned. Some gardens are non-stop maintenance because they become overgrown and some gardens are poorly planned to begin with. And sometimes we just don't want to spend as much time as we used to, working in our gardens.

If this has happened to you, how did you rework your garden so that it was less labor intensive and lower maintenance, without giving up gardening completely?

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Did you start out with more enthusiasm than planning? Are too many of your plants spreading out and taking over?
Did you make your gardens smaller or just more self-sufficient? What helped you decide how to re-design your garden?

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What lessons did you learn? Share tips with other readers.
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