Winter Gardener’s Calendar

A perfect time to plan! Curl up with your gardening books and the gardening magazines and catalogs you’ve received in the mail. Get out the gardening journal and start dreaming…

General Landscape

• Clean up when you get a break in the weather. Remove fallen branches and downed evergreen clumps. Rake leaves to prevent stains on concrete and dead patches of lawn. If freezing weather is still in the forecast, leave the mulch in place.
• If your Christmas tree is still around, set it where the dropping needles will provide mulch, use the branches as additional insulation for perennials, or get together with neighbors to rent a chipper and create wood chips for larger mulch.

Houseplants

• Perk up tired houseplants by removing dead and dying leaves. Wash under a soft shower in the sink or tub.
• Spider mites love living in warm, dry, winter homes. Check for mites by looking for tiny speckles on leaves.
• Transplant if roots are growing through the drainage holes or over the pot edge. Pick up some new, larger, trend-setting, colored pots to perk up your décor. Or, if you don’t want a larger pot, untangle the roots and cut back by 1/3, scour the pots and replant with new soil.
• Remember to turn your plants each week as they begin to grow towards the window light.
• Plant a terrarium or miniature garden. If you can’t play in the dirt outside, bring the fun indoors!

Vegetables

• Plant a short-term cover crop such as Fava beans when soil becomes workable.
• February: Start vegetable and herb seeds indoors:

General

If you just need a breath of aromatic fresh garden air, stop by and smell ours! The humidity is perfect and will instantly transport you to spring. If you have any questions or need suggestions, we’re here to help. We’d love to see you!