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Tips for May

1. No flowers like May flowers...

   Watch all your seedlings come up and try to remember what they are.
   
2. Water, feed, and tend your new outdoor plants. Don't forget to thin your seedlings!
   
3. Enjoy the riotous show nature is putting on, as trees become leaved in mere hours, and flowers replace flowers replace flowers.
   
4. Start late season outdoor seeds like basil and portulaca.
   
5. Buy container herbs such as thyme, mint, lemon balm, and sage.
   
6. Try not to overcrowd your beds, tempting though it is to buy every pretty plant we see.
   
7. Begin thinking about bulb cover. Fast growing flowering plants like chamomile, calendula, godetia, and malcolmia can be nice.
   
8. Take a walk in the woods to see what the wild flowers are up to.
   
9. Weed, weed, weed...
   
10. Open the windows and let the fresh air in.

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