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    How to plan your seed sowing

    Jan 07, 2020 3 minutes

    I’M sure we’ve all done it – we’ve gone to the garden centre, bought a packet of seeds of every plant that takes our fancy, tipped all the seeds onto trays of moist compost – and goet completely overwhelmed by seedlings we haven’t the space to grow on, never mind fit into our gardens. And those that do finally make it to planting out promptly keel over because they’re not suited to the location.

    At this point, sadly, some gardeners give

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