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It’s a new year which leads into new garden ideas. Visions of growing, blooming plants come to mind while a coat of snow coats the backyard as I look out my kitchen window.

Garden seed catalogs have started arriving and flipping through to favorite categories I can’t help but notice the price of seeds has not come down. Will that stop us? Probably not.

It means reading more and being a bit more careful when placing those tiny seeds we plant.

The first step to planting seeds comes before we purchase them. Read, read, read. Track down how long it takes them until bloom time, what the seeds need...