In which there's a new year and I'm wishing for Spring in the veg garden!
It's cold, it's dark, and I'm tired all the time. When will Spring come to my garden? Yes, I would like some cheese with my w(h)ine. Not so fast, buckaroo. Although you can start sowing seeds indoors in January, I find that sowing so early gives me weak, leggy seedlings that struggle when it's time to put them outdoors to cope with the world. Early seed starting in 2025 gave me a lot of seedlings that had no room in the garden! Instead: If you started planning your beds back in November when I wrote about that , now is a terrific time to start making those beds exist in real space. Build walls for your raised beds and put them in place Put up fencing where needed to protect your garden from marauding chickens or children Start (or continue) dumping compost and/or stall cleanings onto the spaces where you want to grow things. If the site is very weedy (like all my gardens are this winter), or if you have limited amounts of compost to dump ...
