There are plenty of things to do to get ready for the gardening season.
Below, I share my January routine for how I prep my garden for the upcoming spring season.
Garden Planning
My vegetable garden and adjacent berry patch are in their 22ndyear now.
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I would not have been successful without keeping detailed written records.
After they did well one year, they qualified as a mainstay crop for the upcoming season.
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Because I want severaltomato varieties, I find it easier and more convenient to buy those as seedlings.
For crops where I have just one favorite variety, for example, eggplant, I buy seeds.
Although I have a sizeable garden, finding a home for each vegetable always takes some fiddling.
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Winter Sowing
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January is also the time forwinter sowing.
The number of days the seed needs varies.
The soil should stay moist at all times.
This can damage and even kill plants, even those that are cold-hardy in our hardiness zone.
Cold Temperatures and Burndown Herbicides.
