Although I am not usually a “resolutions” kind of gal, I figured for 2012 I could at least put a smidge of thought into what I could try to do better in the garden in 2012.
My biggest resolution ought to be SAVING: wether time or money, (both seriously need attention here), I need to have a plan. First, I will try to recycle as many seed and plant catalogues as soon as I go through them. In the depths of winter they become my sustenence and my sanity as the gray takes over the skies for weeks at a time and my mood plummets with the temperatures. By the middle of February, when the garden here is at it’s bleakest, there will be a stack of them full of post-its and circles and notations and in my weakest moments the orders will start flying out via computer and snail mail. This year I am at the ready with a fresh yellow legal pad( my go-to for all writing) where I will carefully track the few seeds and plants I NEED (note the verb) and try to order as many of those from one or two vendors to also save postage and the inevitable wandering eye once I log on to their beautiful websites.
As for time, I know I have to re-work the area around the new shed, but other than that I am calling a moratorium on new garden beds . There are 4 large gardens here and half a dozen smaller ones and that is enough to keep any sane person busy and content.
No dreams of the mythic and unattainable “white garden” I plan every year ,
no dedicated herb garden ( Idon’t even cook so what the heck do I even think I want it for??), and
absolutely NO sneaky garden tricks like saying I am just re-edging when I am really excavating 20 more square feet for new plants. And this time I mean it. Really. Honestly. Cross my heart .
On the positive side of my resolutions, I am going to visit as many other gardens, both public and private, as I can.
I am going to work harder at starting things successfully from seed,
and last but by no means least, I am going to write more and finish the project I have been promising Bill (and myself) will be done soon for the past 3 years.
That ought to do it for me…..what resolutions for the garden are you planning for 2012?
Like you, I have trouble in February with resisting those catalogs. Today I placed my LAST order. I am putting the seed catalogs in the recycling bin. I’ll look at my garden books when I feel gloomy, not catalogs. And hubby promised NO MORE BUILDING PROJECTS for the whole year. Yay!
Happy New Year to you and good luck on your “goals”.
(That’s the NEW word this year, from what I’m seeing–and it does seem more attainable)
“goals” I like it….and I am truly going to follow through on mine re:plant buying, I have another college tuition looming!
Seed and plant catalogs are my savior during our frosty Michigan winters, too. This year though, I have found Blotanical and will spend our cold months visiting the tropics and southern hemisphere gardens.
I admire your resolutions. And, I need to begin growing my own plants from seed too.
Happy new year to you, too.
Isn’t it wonderful to see all the gardens in bloom via Blotanical when ours look so dreary? AND we don’t have to work as hard to enjoy them lol
What a joy to find sooemne else who thinks this way.