It is also a good time to reflect on one's ups and downs in the garden.These observations will turn lessons learned into knowledge that lingers, resulting in better garden management, during the new growing season.
SUITABLE INDOOR PROJECTS TO UNDERTAKE IN JANUARY
- Mark gardening events in your diary or calendar
- Start your garden's journal
- Update your knowledge, get new inspiration - check the local library for recently published gardening books, and online sources, such as relevant blogs, Pinterest pages, etc.
- Order seeds and bare root plants
- Divide/Re-pot plants that need more growing space
- Plant flower bulbs for home decoration
- Prune "leggy" looking house plants such as geraniums (root the cuttings)
- Prepare a meal with preserved produce from your garden's harvest, last season.
- Start container herb garden
- Make birdhouses
- Make bat houses
- Clean, repair (or replace) garden tools
- Tidy your greenhouse
- Prune vines, fruit trees (apple, plum, pear), fruit shrubs (blueberries, gooseberries, white red and black currants)
- Prune Summer flowering shrubs e.g. roses
- Test and condition the soil
- Minimize Winter damage, shake off excess of snow from branches
- Prune Japanese maples, ornamental grasses, evergreens
- Plant bare root plants
- Use wood ashes to condition garden soil
Ashes from treated wood are not suitable for conditioning the soil, since they may contaminate soil and plants with heavy metals and other harmful components. Use untreated wood ashes, only.
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