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old-fashioned sweet peas,

about $3 for a pack of seeds, they’re an

tone blooms by early summer (in warm

climates, plant sweet peas in fall). The

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April is the month I love to plant

Debra Prinzing our

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flowers are lovely, but the real reason to

grow these annuals is to fill your garden—

I grow them in large terra-cotta pots on

tepees. As the plants bloom, pick bunches

the longer they continue to produce flowers.

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