Artful Living: Practical tips for navigating waterlogged gardens
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Bookstores and libraries stock hundreds of volumes that tell you how to do almost anything you can think of connected with gardening -- except how to deal with extreme weather. This past winter local gardens were subjected to damage from salt and more than 100 inches of snow. Now, in the first half of June, we've been deluged with more than five times the normal rainfall for the entire month, with the runoff pushing the lakes to the breaking point. How to deal with such conditions is something each gardener has to figure out alone. There are, however, some things that can help you and your garden get through torrential rainstorms.
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