🎊 Starting a New Year 🎊
It sounds good doesn’t it? Putting the horrors of 2020 behind us, closing that door and forgetting all about it. Well when you are a gardener, at this time of year you’ll be planning out this years garden and that will involve reviewing the previous year.
The jury is still out on a few things that are still growing and haven’t had a harvest yet, such as the purple sprouting broccoli. So far I am not keen to grow it this year because it needs so much time and space but maybe the harvest will knock my socks off and change my mind. I am also leaning towards not growing any tomatoes this year, I don’t actually eat them (I do cook with them) and I spent so much time last year pruning and staking that it left little time or energy to do anymore gardening!
What to do with all of this information?
All of this will be used to tweak the growing plan, maybe you’ll want to ditch that variety of lettuce because it doesn’t work well for you or maybe it needs moving to a different bed or grown at a different time in the season.
Because there are so many factors to take in to consideration, this time of year is kind of perfect for planning the garden. You can curl up with a big mug of tea and some seed catalogues, reminiscing about the barbeques that you had with fresh grown vegetables from your own garden and how your hard work paid off. Because my memory is terrible I also look back through pictures from the previous year, to help give me an idea of dates and harvests, this is also really nice because you’ll see lots of smiling faces and silly memories (and chicken and cat pictures if you’re anything like me).
When it comes to planning out the coming year, I’m quite partial to a spreadsheet, other people might like a calendar. I would encourage people to go with what feels right for them.