What do you wish to get done on the gardening front in the first month of 2015? Did you make any resolutions involving your garden?
I just want to get out there, period! Things got so crazy for me medically and otherwise in the latter part of 2014 that I never even got to winterize the garden I'm ashamed to say! I need to muck around and clean up the plants, cut back some stuff, mulch etc. Plus a client gave me some cute cement figurines that I want to place once I've cleaned things up. Once I get all that done I'll have a better idea what need to be done for the rest of the year.
I won't be able to do anything in the garden except for plan for quite a while yet. The seed catalogs are starting to arrive now, so that helps.
I submitted my first seed order yesterday, and I did it again. I ordered more seeds than I need--a new cherry tomato, a different squash, and two types of sweet corn. Heaven knows where I'll put it all ("honey, how do you feel about tilling up another quarter acre?") This month is weed out the garlic bed and start tomatoes and peppers mid-January. The guest bedroom makes a great greenhouse! And for the entire year I'm hoping to have such a great garden that I can haul pounds and pounds of fresh vegetables to the food pantry.
I hope to sucessfully transplant my Stevia cuttings as well as my aloe, sadly there's not much I can do in january on the gardening front other than sort through my seeds and dream of april when I can start germinating ^^
I've started mapping out the gardens. Seed orders placed. I need to finish setting up the greenhouse. But I love that, because it's so warm in there. First things first, finish up the mess in my house.
I would simply like to complete the cutting back of the iris, putting the leaves in the garbage to reduce reoccurrence of iris borer. If I do that I will be pleased.
Dagnabbit!!!!! I received a Shumway catalog yesterday and looked through it and found several types of seeds I really have to have!!!! But what I really want 'garden wise' in January is RAIN to be repeated monthly until I tell it to stop. If not, then there will be less of a garden than last year. But during nice weather days in January, I will be pulling up any and all plants that required weekly watering last year. Last year ended as the 8th driest in 110 years of record keeping. Even drier in my yard.
Turning 87/213/157 into 0/300/300 refers to the Glossary I'm working on. Ordering seeds is like going into the grocery store hungry. Everything liiks good. Jerry
My outdoor gardens are blanketed with snow, so I won't need to do much there. So, my attention turns to my numerous houseplants. I water, mist, and inspect them regularly. I love the earthy smell of the container mix in the air, after I water. Sometimes when I'm bird watching, or just gazing out the big back window, I dream and scheme about what I want to change or add to the flower borders.
My gardens are covered in snow but I've received several seed catalogs aso I'm trying to decide on a couple of new early tomatoes to try and looking for some new flowers to fill in a few spots. Basically, dreaming and drooling.
