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weeds or tidying up. She still attends Ladies Garden Club meetings and offers advice and tips to her daughter, Helen, who shares her love of plants.
Herringdine’s top tips for the beginning gardener are quite simple.
F irst, find the right location, taking into consideration the sun or shade, water and care requirements of the plants you have selected. According to Herringdine, you can’t
just dig in the clay and expect things to go well. Prepare your soil on the front end with a soil conditioner, such as ground up pine bark and compost to let air get in and make your soil lighter.
Second, plan how you will protect your plants from deer by selecting deer-resistant varieties like marigolds or by sprinkling milorganite fertilizer, a natural deer repellent, around the low- growing plants deer.
Another pro tip is to put milorganite in mesh bags and then place them in shrubs or small trees higher off the ground that are attractive to deer. Herringdine has also found that the cardboard
This sunny daffodil and narcissus flowers start to bloom. Some were dug up from Herringdine’s mother-in-law’s homeplace in Johnson County, where they had been planted around 1900. Others were given to her by a fellow gardener.
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