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Gardening Tips: 1. Put stakes and supports in place for tall, herbaceous plants, like peonies and delphiniums. This will prevent them from falling over or look messy as they grow taller and heavy with blooms with the progressing season. 2. Don’t forget to keep up with your watering, especially as the very hot weather sets in. If you don’t water enough, roots will stay near the surface, making them even more prone to the heat. An inch of water a week is a good rule of thumb, so don’t just spritz, water deeply to keep those roots digging deeper. 3. Time to get those tomatoes and other frost sensitive plants in the ground! Know the frost date for your area (check with your local extension service) and as soon as it’s safe, get things started. More time in the ground means bigger and quicker harvests. 4. Keep a close watch over your garden for any sign of pests so that you can move quickly and take action before the problem spreads out of control. On roses especially, keep an eye out for aphids and mildew. This is also a good time to reapply pepper wax or whatever you might be using to keep the deer, rabbits and other big pests away too. 5. This is also listed as a spring chore, but you should continue to dead-head flowers that have passed throughout the summer (this increases bloom time and strengthens the plant). Pay special attention to dead-heading flowers that self-seed once they have passed so that you maintain control over where they spread in your garden. If you want to propagate certain plants, you can save the flower heads for planting at a later date.

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What I learned: I learned that some plants can live during the winter and then grow back during the summer, they are called perennials most of the plants that do this are flowers. When you transplant plants that you have to keep them out of the light so they can adjust to their new environment. Some plants need large amounts of water and others only take small amounts of water. Some plants can only live for one season and you have to keep replanting them, they are called annuals most of the plants that do this are flowers. What I would do differently: I would switch the plants to the left of the carrots to where the plants to the right are, because they will get taller. Then I would switch the carrots and cabbage.