What are your garden goals or project ideas for 2009?
I'm planning to start a list of my garden goals for 2009.
Have you started yours yet?
I'd love to read your ideas!
Here are some of mine:
1) Grow more dahlias (actually plant the tubers after I buy them!)
2) Plant a blue spruce in my back border
3) Devise a system to keep my clematis, etc. from getting weed wacked
by the man who cuts my grass
4) Get a jump on the weeds before they get out of control!
5) Plant more background trees and shrubs
6) Grow more varieties of annuals
7) Plant the emelia seeds I bought at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
8) Plant the seeds I bought last year and never did anything with!
9) Divide daylilys
10) Etc.
Have you started yours yet?
I'd love to read your ideas!
Here are some of mine:
1) Grow more dahlias (actually plant the tubers after I buy them!)
2) Plant a blue spruce in my back border
3) Devise a system to keep my clematis, etc. from getting weed wacked
by the man who cuts my grass
4) Get a jump on the weeds before they get out of control!
5) Plant more background trees and shrubs
6) Grow more varieties of annuals
7) Plant the emelia seeds I bought at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
8) Plant the seeds I bought last year and never did anything with!
9) Divide daylilys
10) Etc.
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Permalink Reply by Sandy Mitchell on -
1.Since we lost a big tree in the storm 2 weeks ago I will get the stump ground and plant grass seed over that area.
2.Pull out the ivy that I planted as a ground cover because it's going waaay to far.
3.Add some bleeding hearts and hostas to the bed on the north side of the house.
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Permalink Reply by Margie Amason on -
My projected goals this year are to enlarge my herb garden. I am going to try to get one of my sons to build me some higher gardens so it will be easier for me to handle. My grandson Seth, has a great uncle who has ALOT of acres by a river and I have access to alot of plants native to our area. I'm going to make a Native Plant Area. Also, try to propagate more plants and learn as much as I can from any of you who have great ideas. I wish there was a way I could send some of you a Crabapple tree, I have alot of them, also Sassafras Trees, they are plentiful in this area. I am so anxious for spring to arrive.
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Permalink Reply by Mark McRoberts on -
Well....(deep subject) My plans are always too big for my abilities and time. But I will give it a try.
1. Dig up the North bed divide the day lilies. Donate extras to City Park and Church.
2. Plant some new varieties of Coneflower, daylilies and roses. Try to direct seed some flowers this year.
3. Make a strawberry pot of culinary herbs.
4. Create a small wine barrel water garden by the garage and fill it with tadpoles.
5. KEEP UP WITH THE GRASS THIS YEAR EVEN IF IT MEANS CALLING FOR HELP!
6. Get Great nephew out in the dirt! Regardless of what Mom says. Every kid needs dirt at least the kind you plant in!
7. Plant ALL of the plants I buy! (Including the ones that did not get planted in 2008.)
8. Finish planting all of my pots! Including the trough.
9. Have a picnic with friends and not worry about all the weeds.
10. Spend more time in the Garden enjoying a cold iced tea or bottle of wine!
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Permalink Reply by Debbie on -
Mark,
Unfortunately I relate too well to the plant ALL of the plants I buy goal!
(including the ones that DID NOT get planted in 2008!)
I have tended to buy more plants then I ever get planted! I just love to go to garden centers, spend the time to pick out the plants & bring them home. Some of them just never make it into the ground. Sometimes I just group the little containers on top of the soil of a big pot in an arrangement I like. Sometimes my back problems or fear of back problems discourage me from planting more than I do.
I hope these economic times will motivate me to be more serious about this! I really think they will. It is interesting to see which perennials survive the winter in their pots, but......
P.S. I identify with almost all of your goals!!
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Permalink Reply by Van on -
Each year, I PROMISE myself I will be better than the year before. And, saying that, I DO have to say this year was better...in some ways. But, here goes:
1) Replant the flower garden next to my elderly neighbor so she'll have something to look at,
2) Divide my hostas,
3) Trim back and take better care of my roses
4) Divide my daffodils
5) The biggest of all!! Plan my new backyard (used to have a deck as we had it taken down this Fall, now it's just a blank canvass...waiting for me to plan it)
6) Buy more plants!!
7) Research my orchids to find out why they don't bloom
8) FIND the seeds from last year and plant them
9) Get my stawberries in the ground (they've been growing in a pot for 3 years now)
10) Sit back and enjoy the beauty, serinity and butterflies that my garden brings after a long, hectic day at work!
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Permalink Reply by Linda G. on -
1. Downsize my vegetable garden, (Grew too many heirlooms last year and although for the most part they were great there is a reason they have been hybridized)!
2. Perservere with the pots at the end of the season when they start looking pooped out. (I tend to let em go well....to "POT", late in the season when they still have a few good weeks left
3. Get an extra spraying in on the fruit trees.
4. Rearrange the rock edging around a big tree in what i call my "Park" and expand them go around two big trees
5. Revamp a strawberry bed
6. Clean up part of a hedgerow that Im trying to make look beautiful
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Permalink Reply by kctomato on -
grow the heirlooms farther apart to allow air flow. Mulch the ground early to prevent back splashing of infected soil.
Last season the wet weather early created disease problems especially in tomatoes - early blight and septoria leaf spot. The above mentions will help reduce them.
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Permalink Reply by jean baker on -
oh goodie...what fun! great day to dream about the summer garden and what goals i'd like to achieve. there's so much to learn...and one big goal will be to learn how to organically control squash bugs. i'm going to encourage better air circulation around plants to minimize powdery mildew by spacing further apart. i want to get good enough at growing food that i can take extra food to family tree nursery and the senior center on nieman for distribution so poor people can enjoy healthful, locally grown organic food. i want to learn how to better preserve food for winter time. i need to improve the garden soil with compost. need to figure out how to get granite or ground stone to remineralize the soil. and my biggest goal continues to be to grow almost all our own food. last year i improved enough to provide all our grape jam, elderberry syrup (medicine for colds and flu), tea (lemon balm, spearmint, peppermint, raspberry leaves, strawberry leaves, chamomile and cat mint), herbs (parsley, oregano, thymes, rosemary, basils, sage), peppers, tomatoes, berries (strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries), cherries, butternut squash and cabbage. i need to figure out how to grow more potatoes, onions, garlic, broccoli and beans. good luck meeting your goals, fellow gardeners!
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Permalink Reply by Linda G. on
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Wow! Your garden sounds fantastic (alot like mine). Now, I have figured out how you can acheive your goals........you just need more hours in the day.
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Permalink Reply by Debbie on
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Hi everyone! I am enjoying reading your goals! It is inspiring, and fun to read in the dead of winter, when all we can do is dream! Thanks for your input!
Debbie
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Permalink Reply by Debra Norton on
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I'm still working on getting the inside of my greenhouse together, but I have made raised beds and I am going to grow organic vegetables. This is my first year so I imagine I'll be learning alot. I also got organic sunflower seeds from a farmer in Flint. He gave me some tips and a sunflower head to dry out. I have my compose working although this week we went to -20 degrees so I think it is frozen now. I'm trying to get my rain barrel together so I can try to do drip irrigation in to my greenhouse. I have bought all organic seeds and will some be buying organic soil and humus. Thanks for any info anyone can give me.
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Permalink Reply by Chardoner Gardener on -
Weed, water, and fertilize, in memory of my late father.
He was a great gardener, and always gave me these three words of advise. I tend to do none of the three, and though at first he was appalled, he always tried to encourage me. I remember him telling me that it was good that I never used weedkiller, not because he was a fan of organic gardening, but because, "If you used veedkiller, you vould just have dirt. Dare is veally nutin else in your garden." So, this year, I will give it a try. He may have been onto something.
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