December 2014 Gardening To-Do List

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  1. Frank

    Frank GardenStew Founder Staff Member Administrator

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    What's on your gardening calender / to-do list for December 2014?
    (if anything :-| )
     
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  3. Donna S

    Donna S Hardy Maple

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    I'm working on putting mulched leaves and horse poo and compost in my gardens for next year.
     
  4. toni

    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    Last weekend two Pecan trees, 3 Chinaberry trees and 3 Hackberry trees all dumped their leaves on our front and back yards and these trees are all between 10-20 years old so that means a LOT of leaves.
    This month, on warmer days, I will be out scraping a lot of them up for the compost pile especially those on the driveway and walkways. Much of the others will be left in place as mulch for the winter.
    Also have several pieces of cardboard to put down out back in places where I just can't get anything but weeds to grow, then cover that with shredded red cedar mulch.
     
  5. marlingardener

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    To-do list: final, I hope, mowing of the back yard and putting the bagged leaves/grass in the inside chicken coop.
    Tilling in the chicken manure/grass clippings into the big vegetable gardens.
    Perusing the seed catalogs over and over--one of my favorite winter pastimes.
    Thinning the turnips.
    Keeping the leaf lettuces picked.
     



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  6. Beeker

    Beeker In Flower

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    Mostly repotting houseplants and trying my hand at indoor container gardening. This is just in the planning stages though as we are limited in space and my better half needs the workshop to fix some furniture.
    I guess I'll spend December dreaming and thinking about the work I wanted to do but didn't, dreading the time we will have to do it all at once in the spring, and planning the spring veggies and beds all over again.
     
  7. 2ofus

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    Well my garden is done and the ground is frozen a few inches down. However I took lots of photos of the flowerbeds and am already searching on-line to find late summer to fall for color either by foliage or flowers for one bed and mid summer color for another. I'll probably be asking advice later.
     
  8. bunkie

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    Our 'to do list' is mainly cleaning up and fortifying the greenhouse...some panneling came off and it's cold in there!
     

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