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Autumn border boost

Make the most of a time of year when the ground is still warm from summer sunshine yet softened and moistened by autumn rains

Happy new year! No, I haven’t got my seasons muddled. It’s just that what we tend to think of as the end of the gardening year – autumn, easing into winter – is, from a gardener’s point of view, really the start of the new season.

There are things to be planted, the new growing season to prepare for and the chance to make all those improvements that became so obvious in

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