Plan your Garden Before You Plant Your Garden

With January being planning time, I thought I would share this great site to help you plan your garden.  

Plan Garden is an online planner for your garden. 

You can track your seeds, plantings, harvest, garden chores, the weather and so much more there. 

There is a 45 day free trial and then a small fee for continued membership. I say small fee because it is worth it to track what I have done and not have to worry about the fact that my husband someone carried my note pad off again. 

I can also use the online planner to space out my beds and move things around BEFORE I head outside. 

Give it a try, I mean with the 45 day free trial what have you got to loose? No card # required for trial membership.

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This Time I Mean It.

Hit the button if you wonder what all the hoopla is about. I am not making resolutions, just a few goals.....

The high and low of my goals are over at Walkin' In Sunshine but I wanted to add one for my garden.  

I will work smarter NOT harder this year.  I have my planting charts, I have the Farmers Almanac, and the last frost date (average date, I know), and will work according to that and NOTHING else.  NO ONE will talk me into planting 500 seedlings in January only to have 90% of them die before it stopped raining enough for me to get them in the ground.  Nuff Said!!!

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Seeds, Seeds and more Seeds

It's not only Christmas Time, it's seed shopping time. If you want to get what you want, and you want good quality, heriloom (non-GMO or Genetically Mutilated Modified) seeds NOW is the time to order your catalogs, if they still have them in stock that is.

January 1 is the time to order here (I would prefer to do it December 1, but that's not up to me), we start planting indoors January 21 then stagger from there. I used The Farmers Almanac, Plan Garden, and Neil Sperry's "Complete Guide To Texas Gardening" to plan when to start which seeds. Some will be done inside and others will wait until the danger of the last frost is gone. If this is your first visit check out my post on using your gardening time wisely in the fall and winter.

My recommendations for seeds and their catalogs are Baker Creek Seeds, Seeds of Change, and Seed Savers. All three of these sites/places have some GREAT books, articles and tips for gardening. We ordered from Baker Creek Seeds last year and were NOT disappointed.

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Wordless Wednesday

My NEW Seed catalogs came!!!!

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds   Seeds of Change

http://www.wordlesswednesday.com 

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