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As A Beginner Gardener, This Is What I'm Planting This Spring

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26.02.2026

I'm A Beginner Gardener – Here's Exactly What I'm Planting This Spring

My tiny garden will be flourishing by summer.

Freelance Life Writer

This summer will be my fifth summer in this house and that means it’s also my fifth summer of enjoying my garden, reading on the grass outside with my cat on lunch breaks and trying to be something of a successful gardener.

Like all creative pursuits, gardening comes with the acceptance that failure is essential to growth but nevertheless, I’ll be planting salad leaves, potatoes, cornflowers and dahlias just to name a few this spring.

I know that I should have done some planting in the winter so that I’d see my garden blooming in the coming spring days but I’ll be honest, the chill of Scottish winters don’t exactly motivate me to kneel on frosty grass.

What I’ll be planting to make my small........

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