What are some things I can do in the Winter. To prepare to have a Flower Garden in the Spring?

Oh, Rug! I can't wait to get out in my garden but until then...


January when the garden is covered with snow and seems most dormant, is the time to start planning the garden and poring over seed catalogues. It takes time to work out a garden plan and choose the flower and vegetable varieties you want to grow. And then it takes time for your seed order to be filled and delivered. Add to that the head start you may want to give some plants indoors before planting outside, and midwinter becomes none too early to start. Nevertheless, any time before the last practical planting date for the varieties you want to grow will do. Seed companies will generally take your order well into spring, and plenty of seed packets can be found on the racks of local stores at that time. Have fun, Rug, and start planning! What a fun thing to do!

What are some things I can do in the Winter. To prepare to have a Flower Garden in the Spring?
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Reply:Its a very good time around Feb 15th or so to start germinating flower seeds.





I use a food warmer plate set in the sunny window and sterile medium. As soon as the seeds sprout, i plant in sterile soil. The key here is bottom heat and sterile medium and soil. By April 30th I already have these plants in my unheated garage on shelves exposed to the sunny windows and they are near


3 inches or so high.





You can plant petunias right outside about March 1. Take a large 12-16" black pot and fill it with regular soil, no need for sterile here. Take about 20 or so hand fulls of rotten wood that you have gotten from the Forrest. Put it atop the soil. Sprinkle the petunia seeds around the top. Dont cover. They will germinate and become a mass of small petunias to which you put in top soil filled flats. I do about 15 to 20 flats a year this way.





Dont spade a flower garden till you are ready to plant the seedlings in there. And then always mix a bag or two of Michigan peat into the soil as that aids in moisture retention.
Reply:how about drawing a plan/map and decideing what to do?


(please make certain that y our plans include a place to compost)


go to various web site and plan what you want to plant (can you start these from seeds this time of year? how about growing a few extra veg for the local food bank?
Reply:Right now everything is so dormant that you really can't do anything.. Until like Mid march or April. Then you can start by laying down fresh fertilizer and some nutrients.


But just be careful not to plant something that will die when we get tHAT LATE frost that will come..





good luck

dvr