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Readers Respond: New Year's Garden Resolutions

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By Marie Iannotti, About.com

Every winter, when I start planning my garden, I make notes for myself about not going overboard with tomatoes or sticking with my color scheme or making sure I get my mulch down before the leaves change color in the fall. Some get done, others get ignored. What are your resolutions for this year's garden? This Year I Will (not)...

ignore the weeds!

i promise, Missy Garden, M'am! I vow to stop and pluck that pesky grass rather than give it a lick and a promise. I vow to stab that dratted broad-leaf weed rather than wait until it flowers and blows seed everywhere. >^,,^
—KatWolfdancer

Not ever again...

plant any ground covers in my flower beds, no matter how pretty that 'little' plant is
—Guest prairie

Dave

Spend moor time in the garden growing new things to eat.
—Guest David P. Fitch

stop by the garden store to look...

and buy plants that do not have a home in my garden. I will continue to compost and enrich the soils in my humus poor land and try to enhance the garden for the birds and bees.
—Guest karina

Go crazy...

and and get carried away ordering too many types of seed packets (because they all sound sooo tempting and are so budget friendly) that never get planted! Optimism as a gardener is great when you're tending your garden, but only fine in moderation when you place your plant & seed orders!
—Guest Theresa

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