What's your Gardening New Years Resolution??? Whose first??? Step Forward... Speak clearly!! We're all waitng!!

I'll go first.

I'm going to have to say that my "goal" is to just enjoy being in the garden more. I really want to be able to enjoy watching my kids play instead of having my eyes "wander" and wonder what I can plant next.

My goal is to finish the hardscaping pronto. I am tired of having bricks stacked all over the yard! THEN I can get back to doing the "pretty" stuff

I'm just hoping that the New garden I planted in October florishes...I worked really hard preparing the soil and doing it right this time.I'ld also like to start working on the upper tiers.

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:eek To aim for low maintenance garden beds while still enjoying my blooms! (& yours!)

OK Who is that standing in the back? Your turn....

I have wish lists. I plant now for the butterflies and birds. There are a few plants that I would like to try. I just went online and ordered flower and seed catalogs to make my wish list! My new years resolution then would be get those plants I've been putting off buying!

You saw me back there, didn't you? LOL... Well I'm starting from scratch so I've got lots to do, but I want a yard and garden that's not going to be overwhelming..I want to enjoy it without it killing me...If you don't live here in the south you can't imagine our heat and humity, it's just awful.... but after a year in Nova Scotia I'm not crazy about the cold either!~~Cindy

My goal is to stay far away from the poison ivy patch this year. I found some poison oak last year by accident too.

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hi ellen! oh you busted me...

ok i resolve to be on the boards more and to work on the garden expansion... and then enjoy it

happy new year!

To spread all of my mulch before the 90 degree weather hits....

(1) Finish clearing the leaf duff off the irises before spring. (2) Spread more wood chips on my trails in the back.

Actually PLAN the garden this year, rather than doing the "oooo, THAT's pretty!" style....

Someone, please take my credit cards away from me.....

Take my car in and see if they can re-program it somehow so it won't think it's supposed to stop at every single nursery it passes!

Now the crowd has showed up... I knew that was Bookie with the orange cape! LOL Who else needs to come forward here....Genie I want to hear a REAL RESOLUTION!!! Something like I will grow orchids for all my garden buddies! LOL

I promised my poor neglected shade garden lots of tlc this year!!

Me, too, on the 90 degree weather and getting the mulch down.

Leave the checkbook at home when visiting garden centers. Don't buy plants to feed the deer and voles. Enjoy everything even though it has been half eaten to the ground.

We are Building a Stacked Garden
bed.It will be 3 levels
So you can Stand and garden
It will be like a Garden Wall...


Also redoing a Large Corner Bed..

my turn...to keep on top of mulch,fertilize and plant the roses and clematis I bought because Jeanne made me do it

OK We are still waiting to hear from YOU!

I'll be the third to say getting the mulch done before the hot weather!! I will be on our local garden tour again this year and the tour forces me to get the mulch done early. It makes the summer much more enjoyable if that task is done by mid-June.

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Originally posted by Ellen Ohio:
OK We are still waiting to hear from YOU!

Happy New Year

I agree with everyone about getting the hard work done before it gets too hot. Take better care of my roses and be more diligent about weeding.