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Plan a Garden for a Year’s Worth of Food

The best gardening advice I can offer is to start out simple. Most of us would love to cut back on our grocery bill, and growing our own food certainly helps. When we’re plunking seedlings or seeds into our garden soil, it doesn’t look like all that much work. But when all those plants start to grow and require care, a beginning gardener can wonder what on earth they were thinking.

That’s why I recommend starting out by planting foods you and your family eat a lot and that will grow well in your

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