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The Dilts Family: Their Plans, Costs and Products From "Garden Sense" episode DGAR-210

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Not-So-Sensible Selections

• Avoid bulbs that have mold on them or are soft and squishy around the sides. They are dead or sick inside. If you put them in the ground, they simply won't perform.

• For instant color after all the bulbs are in place, put in plants that bloom in the fall, such as violas, violets or dianthus. Avoid daylilies because they're trying to put up lots of foliage at the same time the bulbs are trying to put up their flowers.

• Avoid annual black-eyed Susans, or rudbeckia, and buy perennials, because the annual varieties won’t grow back year to year.

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Sensible Tools

These are the tools and garden supplies used on our project by Walter and the DIY team and also given to the homeowners to help care for their new landscape:

• Soil provided by Fafard
  (www.fafard.com)
  
• Tools provided by Ames
  (www.ames.com)
  
• Fiskars
  (www.fiskars.com)
  
• Fiskars Hedge Trimmer
  (www.fiskars.com)
  
• Ortho Whirlybird
  (www.ortho.com)
  
• Round Up
  (www.roundup.com)
  
• Green Light Many Purpose Dust
  (http://www.greenlightco.com/products/_dusts.htm)
  
• Green Light Amaze Grass and Weed Preventer
  
• Critter Ridder
  (www.havahart.com)
  
• Scotts Bulb Fertilizer
  (www.scotts.com)
  
• Scotts Rose and Bloom
  
• Messenger
  (http://www.edenbio.com/usa/homeproducts/)

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RESOURCES :

A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants
American Horticultural Society
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Inc.
ISBN 0-7566-0616-0
Website: www.dk.com