I’m not big on making resolutions for the New Year, but maybe I should be! There are a few things I could do that would make gardening more productive, and maybe even more fun…
- Keep better records. I do keep some, especially to do with seeding and transplanting dates, but I rely on (fallible) memory for a lot of other things. It would be especially interesting to have a record of harvest amounts and dates, something I did when I was market gardening and selling my produce, but not since.
- Rebuild the hoophouse! The poor thing has been sitting there uncovered for 18 months now, and it’s not doing us any good that way. Plus, it looks messy.
- Make a place to relax in the garden, and then relax in it. Without getting up to “just pull a few weeds over there…”
- Build surrounds around some of our heaped-up raised beds. We’ve got the wood, and it needs doing… I just get overtaken by the need to Plant Something In That Bed and before you know it, building a surround round the planted bed would cause too much disturbance.
I could keep going, there are so many plans and ideas that would be great to turn into reality, but there’s only so much time and energy in one year!
What are your gardening resolutions this year?
