Your 2024 Garden

[LTAY1946]

How many folks here have started planning their garden for next year. I'm in the early stages of planning based on how much of what we need to use fresh and preseve by drying, freezing, canning, and pickling.

 

[fuzzi]

ONE.PLANT.

 

[Debbie292d]

How many folks here have started planning their garden for next year. I'm in the early stages of planning based on how much of what we need to use fresh and preseve by drying, freezing, canning, and pickling.

That is awesome but we do so much less than you. We freeze corn and squash, and sometimes the pole beans, but that's it.

We just make a list and get the seeds in March/April, whenever we see they're out. I used to make large orders on Burpee or one of them seed/plant places. I also use to start tomatoes and marigolds in the house in March but I quit doing that too. We lessened how much we plant so for tomatoes, just want one of four different kinds.

What things do you dry? I dried some lavender but then the plant died. I give up on those.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I just need to plan what seeds to get, as Baker Creek gets busy/sold out once we're on the cusp of spring. I've more or less figured out what I like to grow, and how much of it, but definitely need some new seed.

I plan out everything on a spreadsheet so it makes it really easy to figure out what goes where, and when relative to last year I should plant.

Also need to redo my asparagus bed, the wood is thin and falling apart so I'm hoping to get a slightly larger bed and just place it around the old one and fill in the gaps with dirt/wood chips.

 

[LTAY1946]

I just need to plan what seeds to get, as Baker Creek gets busy/sold out once we're on the cusp of spring. I've more or less figured out what I like to grow, and how much of it, but definitely need some new seed.

I plan out everything on a spreadsheet so it makes it really easy to figure out what goes where, and when relative to last year I should plant.

Also need to redo my asparagus bed, the wood is thin and falling apart so I'm hoping to get a slightly larger bed and just place it around the old one and fill in the gaps with dirt/wood chips.

Look into https://www.southernexposure.com/
Baker Creek is not the only place for good heirloom seed.

 

[LTAY1946]

I can only have a small garden but we’re planning on setting up can’t think of th name for the life of me but it’s like a tower with water running through and maybe some plants in pots

Sounds like a pole bean tower. I hope to get a lot of bamboo poles cut. They are free and work fine. I need pole beans to eliminate the bending.

 

[Sammster]

How many folks here have started planning their garden for next year. I'm in the early stages of planning based on how much of what we need to use fresh and preseve by drying, freezing, canning, and pickling.

Only a little, in my head. But soon, on paper. I did get a new greenstalk garden for my birthday in November - which I plan to use for strawberries.
79 days Until Spring!

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

I'm lucky enough to be able to grow all year round. Frost is my biggest determining factor in planning what to plant when. This year I'm going to start keeping a diary of my vegetable garden. Rainfall, Temperature, Sowing/Planting dates etc. I've finished all the bed building so now it's all about building soil and soil biology.

There are some really good garden journals out there you could utilize if you haven't gotten one yet. Nice to write what day you planted what and when you harvested etc

 

[Sally PB]

Just looking for clues as to what to include in mine,

Here's something to keep in mind: Where/when the sunlight is on your garden plot. Are there some shrubs/trees/buildings that might cast shade some parts of the day? How many hours of sunlight do you get in the more marginal months, like in April or September?

One half of my downhill garden gets shade about an hour before the other half, just due to the slope of the hill and the trees to the west.

The uphill garden probably gets at least an hour a day MORE sunlight, because it's up on the hill.

These are things that don't change, year to year, so if you map it out once, you're good. Unless you add buildings or cut down trees.

 

[Patiocoturnix]

How many folks here have started planning their garden for next year. I'm in the early stages of planning based on how much of what we need to use fresh and preseve by drying, freezing, canning, and pickling.

I can only have a small garden but we’re planning on setting up can’t think of th name for the life of me but it’s like a tower with water running through and maybe some plants in pots