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Gardening chores for January can keep you busy when the sun shines and on rainy days as well. Holidays are over, and gardeners are clutching their pruners and are eyeing their shovels with an itchy foot eager to start digging into the soil.
Don't start to turn over the garden soil until you are able to take a fist full of soil, squeeze it and it crumbles easily when it hits the ground. During damp days you can prune and if the weather is really bad, stay in and finish ordering your seeds for planting. Of course you can always pull the ever-present weeds!See the full content of this document
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Gardening Chores for January
Dormant pruning: While the soil is drying out, prune your dormant trees. Prune vigorously growing fruit trees, shrubs and roses. It is better to prune and make a few mistakes than not to prune at all. For vigorously growing fruit trees, such as peaches, plums and apricots, a general rule is to remove two-thirds of last year's gr...
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