One of my favourite garden tasks is completed in the middle of winter, while the garden is fast asleep - Planning.
Each year, the garden provides us with a fresh start and seemingly limitless potential – pests, diseases, and wacky weather are optimistically thought of as “possibilities”, not certainties. In my plan, the weather is perfect, not too cold/hot/wet/dry/windy, all my sowings are perfectly timed & every seed comes up, my netting keeps out all of the cabbage white butterflies, the slugs are kept at bay by my liberal and consistent applications of diatomaceous earth, and I am able to pick off every single Japanese beetle from the plum tree. As the snow flies and the temperatures outside are well below zero, such is the optimism that I feel while working on my plan for the coming season, .
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Old plans, new plans & current seed listing |