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In which you've decided to build a garden...and the-e-e-e-n-n-n-n what do you do?

 Welcome to the Dark Side, where gardening and plants take over every waking thought. But not immediately.   They seem so innocent,  don't they?   The good news about deciding to build a garden in November is that you don't need to rush.  Winter is the time to enjoy the easier, fun, non-sweaty, non-prickly, non-dirty part.   You can spend months streaming old episodes of " Gardener's World " (highly recommended for all gardeners, and especially for those who, like us, live in an English-esque climate, aka a Swamp), check out stacks of books at your local library (they are all on the shelf right now, waiting for you to browse them), and start sending out requests for seed catalogs (I'll put a list of my faves in my next post). Here are some good tasks for November, for both new and experienced gardeners who want to start a new garden: *   Decide on a location.  If you are growing vegetables and you live in the afore-mentioned Englis...

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