January 2025 Garden Report

From now on, I will be doing a separate monthly entry called a “Garden Report” in order to better keep track of what I am doing each month in the garden. That way it will be easier to do it all again next year and beyond. I also have a spreadsheet AND a garden layout book.  Hopefully, all these things put together will make future years run more smoothly because I’ll be able to refer back to what I did!

So for January…

• planning!!! I spent A LOT of hours planning this year’s garden. There was a lot more to plan this year, including moving from planting just one season (a hot summer garden) to planting three seasons (a cool spring garden, then a hot summer one, and then a cool fall garden). AND there are tons of new grow boxes to fill up as well.  So exciting. I even used A.I. and it was fun!
• made plant tags — Once it was all planned, I made all the plant tags. This year I just used a sharpie since changes are surely going to happen, but next year I will use a weather resistant pen so that tags can be used from year to year.

If I use these same tags next year….I created a color system that’s working well:

• blue: direct sow
• yellow and green: start indoors
• pink: buy
• red: info to accompany tag (ie: dry, perennial…)