Any Gardening Resolutions For New Year ?

[Smart Red]

Go vertical, Steve. Plant a wide row of peas up fencing and plant something like beets beside them. The peas are gone long before the beets need the space. You can still plant your main crop of peas in the big garden while enjoying the earliest of them.

 

[Beekissed]

I agree. I plant my peas when I plant my lettuce, broccoli, spinach, radishes, carrots, etc. I can usually fit them in quite easily around where I'll plant other crops that mature later without any problems for either one.

 

[Carol Dee]

WEEDS,I resolve to NOT let the weeds take over again.

 

[majorcatfish]

use more soaker hoses, less hand watering...

 

[thistlebloom]

use more soaker hoses, less hand watering...

Do you adapt the size of your bed to make the hoses fit Major, or just make them fit the size of your beds?
I would like to use more soakers, but the sizes of my beds made it awkward last year. They were two straight so only the middle portion got enough water, or too long when I serpentined them and had to attach two together.

Definitely need to organize my layout better. But that's not a resolution!

 

[Beekissed]

Make seed tapes...much more seed tapes. Do it now and not wait until I need them.

 

[ducks4you]

I agree! I have learned more by trial and error, than even all that I have read here and other places.
In 2013 DH suggested that I make a (rectangular) flower bed around the power pole, a few feet from the Satellite dish. (Hard to mow.) I planted many things, including moss rose, and they dropped seeds and some came up in 2014. In 2015 I started about a dozen nasturtiums and they exPLODED throughout the bed and outside of it. I am positive, with ALL of the flowers, that they dropped seeds and I'm betting that I won't have to replant it. It reminded me of the boxes with wave petunias!
Nasturtiums are now one of my favorite flowers!
Btw, I always line my flower beds with bricks at ground level. DD's just bought a house and THEY get my string trimmer, pretty much bc they have a small yard and probably won't mind trimming for 5 minutes and then spend an hour redoing the string.
I keep wanting to make a few cold frames, but I think I'll be lucky if I get around to making one, and it will probably be for NEXT winter. HOWever, if I dig up the carrots that surround the cement on top of the cistern (next to the house), I might cut a few pieces of wood and make a crude one. I still keep horses, so fresh, hot and decaying manure, for the bottom layer, is at the ready!
I have played with raised beds and decided that MY way to do them is to use wood that isn't screwed or nailed together. Instead, I have been buying those short, wooden stakes, that come by the dozen (at the hardware store) and then pound those into the ground to hold up the walls of the beds. I just took out and burned the rotten wood from my raised beds a few months ago and stacked and saved the good ones. I tilled in stall waste, I am adding more stall waste, and I'm letting my winter compost cook. I really do not like how you have to scrape down the sides and the corners of these beds, because the garden dirt settles there and compacts. I am also NOT afraid to remove the dirt from a flower bed and replace it with dirt from what was a horse stall and chicken coop compost pile from the previous year.
I dunno...maybe it's because I am pretty much the only person who takes a good look at my yard, because I live in the country!

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I found out today that I am so out of shape it is crazy! Last year I planted and worked and had no problems. DH went to the hospital and garden work mostly stopped. I was not eating a lot and did lose 11 pounds for the year. I can get down and put wood in the stove and back up, so my knees are working and they did last year. I have not been doing much of anything since DH got sick, but I went out today with a hoe. The cherry bushes have branches hanging down with snow and froze to the ground, so I dug snow away so the branches were free. I walked out and checked the compost and just walked around looking at things, cut some raspberry canes for the rabbits. A few hours later, I am getting sore all over, especially my ankles and between my shoulders. My resolution will be to start doing something outside daily. I did a few of those wall exercises and even that made my arms sore. I don't like this at all.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

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

This is where I am at. This is going to take some doing. I need time, I need strength. I have the motivation, but this is the first time I worried about time and strength.

 

[so lucky]

#Gardening with Rabbits, that's about where I am, too. I only have a few hours in the day that I have the energy to do anything physical. In the summer, mornings are my friend for outside work. If I still had a paying job outside the home, I wouldn't have the energy for anything else at all.