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Garden Tasks

There's always a good reason to go to the garden!

Taking care of routine tasks is key to keeping your garden healthy and attractive. Longfellow's shares their top tasks here with you by the month.

In general, garden-related tasks fall into three categories:

Regular maintenance: such as cultivating, trimming, pruning, fertilizing, and mulching
Planting:
Enhancement: such as adding garden art and special features or feeding the birds

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July

Please click on the links below to access planting and maintenance information for July.

•	General Gardening Activities Fall vegetable gardens start in July