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Article: Gardening answers with Paul Rogers.
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- April 23, 2009
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Byline: Paul Rogers
Start your garden with a clean slate
Sanitizing your landscape will pay greater benefits than almost any other task that you can perform.
Why?
If you had problems with insects and diseases in the garden last year, the potential for those same problems exists again this year. You might not see evidence of them now, but that is because it is early in the season, and they are lying in wait.
What are they waiting for?
They are waiting for leaves to emerge, waiting for flowers to show and waiting for tender new growth to develop. Then, when conditions are right, all those insects and diseases are ...