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Gardening in January
Jan. 3rd, 2010 09:29 amWell, the foot-plus of snow knocked out the winter garden (lettuce and kale), so that's pretty much it for a few months. I cut back my pitcher plant indoors, we'll see if it grows back.
I did an inventory of the seeds I have left over from the '09 planting season, just to see what I don't have to buy more of this coming spring (we're starting to get seed catalogs here already, wheeeee) & for something gardening-related to do on a day where the windchill outside is 2 degrees F. Here's what I have seeds for: cilantro, squash/zucchini, cucumbers (3 varieties), milkweed, cat grass, wildflower mix, blackeyed susan, beans, parsley (few), tomato (sweetie cherry).
Obviously I'm going to need more vegetable seeds or starters, but that's not a bad foundation. My big mistake in '09 was getting overanxious and planting my seedlings too early, so except for the zucchini they didn't make it through to summer and I had to rely on starter plants. Of those, the only one I was really happy with production-wise was the Roma tomatoes, the "Big Bertha" peppers and "Big Boy" tomatoes didn't really come through nearly as well as I would have liked. I wanted to try growing regular-sized tomatoes, since while the cherry tomatoes in '08 were numerous I got tired of them after a while, but they had problems with splitting and especially with slugs getting to them before they finished ripening, so that's something I have to address next year. The zucchini produced like gangbusters in early summer, but they did die out once the weather turned really warm.
I did an inventory of the seeds I have left over from the '09 planting season, just to see what I don't have to buy more of this coming spring (we're starting to get seed catalogs here already, wheeeee) & for something gardening-related to do on a day where the windchill outside is 2 degrees F. Here's what I have seeds for: cilantro, squash/zucchini, cucumbers (3 varieties), milkweed, cat grass, wildflower mix, blackeyed susan, beans, parsley (few), tomato (sweetie cherry).
Obviously I'm going to need more vegetable seeds or starters, but that's not a bad foundation. My big mistake in '09 was getting overanxious and planting my seedlings too early, so except for the zucchini they didn't make it through to summer and I had to rely on starter plants. Of those, the only one I was really happy with production-wise was the Roma tomatoes, the "Big Bertha" peppers and "Big Boy" tomatoes didn't really come through nearly as well as I would have liked. I wanted to try growing regular-sized tomatoes, since while the cherry tomatoes in '08 were numerous I got tired of them after a while, but they had problems with splitting and especially with slugs getting to them before they finished ripening, so that's something I have to address next year. The zucchini produced like gangbusters in early summer, but they did die out once the weather turned really warm.
