Ms. Eudora’s Garden Tool Blog

In order to have your garden ready for next year, sometimes it is wise to plan it out after you have completed the clean-up and removal of all the debris from this year’s garden. Once you have removed all the dead seasonal vegetables and flowers, now is the time to take notes and draw diagrams.

Early planning of your garden will help in the overall planting for next year and with a diagram you can prevent damage to plants that are still dormant before you begin preparing the soil in the spring.   It is a good idea to make a few notes as to what was where and what did best in certain areas of the garden.  This will help you to determine whether or not you should change the location of some of your garden flowers and vegetables.

Any plants that did not fare well can be placed somewhere else when you start planting.   Write reminders to yourself as to which vegetables did not do well and over the winter months you will have the opportunity to bone up on your reading and see what can be done to improve your gardening skills as well as your crop.

Adding organic composts such as manure and soil amendments such as dried blood and bone meal to your garden soil now, will give the soil time to absorb all their healthy ingredients and have it rich with nutrients when you begin to plant next spring.  Topping off the soil with mulch or compost and allowing it to over-winter will also aid in next year’s garden planning.

If you plant spring bulbs, now is the time, plan out an array of colors, sizes and varieties of daffodils, tulips, crocus and other early blooming flowers for a garden of beautiful color when spring comes.

Spring and summer gardening plans are easy when you have all winter to sit and imagine how you want your garden to look.

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