Any Gardening Resolutions For New Year ?

[Nyboy]

Mine is say away from clearance plants, unless I just have to have it. Spend less time on Craigs list, unless I just have to have it. Do better job weeding unless something more fun comes up. I am no fool, the unless make it EZ to follow.

 

[majorcatfish]

Mine is say away from clearance plants, unless I just have to have it. Spend less time on Craigs list, unless I just have to have it. Do better job weeding unless something more fun comes up. I am no fool, the unless make it EZ to follow.

 

[Smart Red]

Right, Nyboy! And that is so easy to do this time of year -- "stay away from clearance plants." By the time the clearance racks start filling out you will have long forgotten any resolutions you made.

Stop by here and we'll remind you.

As for spending less time on Craig's List. . . If you are not on CL you will never know it is something you "just have to have". Weeding is probably the resolution you will find easiest to keep. Something more fun will always come up.

 

[ducks4you]

I don't mind clearance plants. They do ok if you stick them in a painter's bucket with a few inches of water when you get them home.
My resolutions are out of necessity!!!!
1) continue the fight to eradicate burdock from my property!!
2) start the onion sets that I didn't plant, but brought inside this morning, in my pots next to the basement windows (for secret eating! )
3) continue to double dig the last 4 beds as deep as the first 4 beds, about 2 1/2 ft. (It made the other beds super fluffy
4) continue to compost my beds. Every year they are better, and, as you'all know, I have to move mountains of manure in the winter
5) Buy a LOT of Preen this year. I want to plant my 3"+ seedlings in the bed and save myself weeding time in exchange for horse riding time!
6) Start lettuce and spinach inside in February, and then transplant them, late March
7) Buy dormant oil THIS MONTH and use it on my fruit trees this late winter! Never done it before, but I have a few extra bucks and I'm gonna take the plunge.
Otherwise, I'm just going to keep trying, as I do every year. I really learn soooo much.

 

[digitS']

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." ~ Dr. Seuss

I'm not sure what I will have the time and strength for. It will take motivation and doing things differently will require, at least some, mental energy just to think of them ...

I resolve to tap as much energy from TEG as I possibly can!!!

Steve

 

[so lucky]

In the past, when spring is on the way I get some energy, and suddenly I feel like putting in a garden. Right now I don't think I have enough energy.

 

[Smart Red]

That is the purpose of winter -- at least here in South-est, central-est Wisconsin. The garden rests and the gardener rests. Come spring all of nature bursts through and the gardener gets a surge of energy.

 

[Beekissed]

Yes! I resolve to plant MORE, to plant in succession, and to let things go to seed for the purpose of saving, to save all the seed I possibly can, to dehydrate and store more, and plan for a fall and winter garden season BEFORE it becomes fall and winter.

 

[Jared77]

For me it's pretty simple....

Plant peas. I've missed the boat on this enough times it's awful. I really like peas too I just can't seem to be ready when it's time to get it done.

Plant birdhouse gourds.

Make a cold frame to get a jump on my gourds. Did it 3 summers ago and it was tremendous the difference a few weeks made at the finish on my pumpkins. Been so busy last few years I've had to buy started gourds if I was going to get any. This year I need to get the straw bales and do it right again. I started them in peat pots so they transferred easier. Few slits in the side to help with root expansion and they took off once the weather warmed up. Best pumpkins I ever grew hands down. They were big took 2 of us to move them. One to carry the pot the other held the vines & kept them from breaking.

Can more different stocks in addition to chicken.

Get in front of the pests trying to harm my rhubarb before it looks like someone missed what they were aiming at and hit the leaves instead with a shotgun.

Get my cukes off the ground and growing vertically.

Rest of it's just keeping weeds back and being more aggressive about mulching.

 

[digitS']

I'm gonna say something here also, about breaking resolutions. I think those people who make resolutions they nearly always break are novices. When we realize how difficult some things are, we are a little more careful. Notice how experiences are governing our resolutions ... continue this/continue that, done that before/going to do it again or, missed a couple of times/think I've figured it out.

Right now, there are 25 guests on TEG. Yesterday, a new member signed up. Can't remember his name; he didn't post. For how many of these folks would this be a year for a first ever garden? How many have tried once and failed? I bet some of us have forgotten how steep the learning curve is.

... plan for a fall and winter garden season BEFORE it becomes fall and winter.

There is a difference between allowing time to slip away and not knowing what we are about .

Twice that I can remember, we have been asked in something like October, when winter squash should be planted. The name "winter squash" has confused some novices . It's okay, I wonder how many folks have not figured it out and are too shy to even ask.

I really like peas too I just can't seem to be ready when it's time to get it done.

I have this problem too, Jared. Almost all of my early crops are grown in my little veggie garden. The exceptions are peas. Since they aren't very productive (by the square foot), I want them out in the big veggie garden. There, I've got lots to do and usually have to wait for the tractor guy to even to start!

Steve