JANUARY SNAPSHOT: Generally our wettest, chilliest month. Smart buys: bare-root fruit, flowering and shade trees, grape and berry vines, strawberries and roses. Protect tender plants from frost. Order seeds from those tempting catalogs that are piling up. FLOWERS: Set out transplants of pansies, English daisies, Iceland poppies, primroses and snapdragons. Sow seeds of sweet peas for armloads of fragrant spring bloom (protect seeds from birds and slugs). Try new varieties of California poppy in luscious colors: Dusky Rose, Buttercream, Native Orange. VEGETABLES: Put in transplants of broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and lettuce to harvest in early spring. Plant asparagus, artichokes, seed...
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