The flowerbed should be 12 feet wide and 5 ft deep. To determine how much sunlight the area receives, start at 5:30 AM and observe the area at 1-hour intervals until 8:00 p.m. I prefer to use the guidelines published by Ms Good Gardener in her blog, but you may want to consult others if your garden is outside of the US. Also be aware that some plants are sensitive to U.v. radiation. You can find additional information on the amount of sunlight your lawn receives by typing your Z.I.P. code into a search tool. If your garden is big enough, you may need an ATV to get from one side to the other with all your tools. FYI, yours truly once had an RV and an S.U.V., but now drives a Prius.
Making abbreviations consistent is one of the most difficult areas of editing. Here are some tips on things that slipped through in the revisions by various respondents:
The acronym for Zoning Improvement Plan, according to bothThe Gregg Reference Manual and the Associated Press stylebook, should always be written this way: ZIP code.
The social title Ms. should have a period in American English, to match Mr., even though it is technically not an actual abbreviation.
If you are abbreviating the measurements, such as ft for feet, you should abbreviate hours (h), minutes (min), and seconds (s) also. And notice that you don't add an s to the plurals of units of measure or time or their abbreviations.
In the phrase "outside of the US," almost every style guide agrees, US should be spelled out as United States. The short form US should be used only as an adjective in front of another word, as in US Navy, and not as a noun on its own.
No respondent escaped unscathed the wrath of my eagle editorial eyes, but Sonia Verma comes the closest, having missed only the "US as a noun" thing. Here is her paragraph:
The flowerbed should be 12 ft. wide and 5 ft. deep. To determine how much sunlight the area receives, start at 5:30 AM and observe the area at hourly intervals until 8:00 PM. I prefer to use the guidelines published by Ms. Good Gardener in her blog, but you may want to consult others if your garden is outside of the US [s/b United States]. Also, be aware that some plants are sensitive to UV radiation. You can find additional information on the amount of sunlight your lawn receives by typing your ZIP code into a search tool. If your garden is big enough, you may need an ATV to get from one side to the other with all your tools. FYI, yours truly once had an RV and an SUV, but now drives a Prius.