“6 Gardening Resolutions I Swear I’ll Keep This Year”

By: Lisa Kaplan Gordon

Published: January 2, 2013

Every year I resolve to be a more diligent gardener: This year, I mean it.

 

Usually, my New Year’s gardening resolutions begin with: Stay on top of weeding. But last year, I experimented with alternative gardens — square foot gardens, plastic bag gardens— that virtually vanished weeds from my vegetable patch.

So, this year, I’ve got time to work on the other resolutions on my list.

• Grow only what I’ll eat, instead of planting seven kinds of lettuce and letting it spoil in my vegetable crisper.

• Hang gardening tools on my potting bench every day, rather than letting them rust in the rain.

• Prune, feed, and spray my roses all summer, not just at the beginning of the season.

• Dig up summer bulbs and store them for winter, instead of letting them rot, and then buying new ones.

• Do what it takes — compost, stake, feed — to grow a decent tomato.

• Don’t give gardening advice to my neighbor unless he asks, then keep quiet when he ultimately does it his own way.

What plans do you have for your garden this year?

 

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