This Chronic Gardener’s New Year’s Resolutions

All Posts, Frankie's Blog | February 14, 2011 by mmusial | 0 Comments

I will create a gardening budget and stick to it. Need I say more?
And I will not impulse buy no matter how bold and beautiful that new variety, If it doesn¹t fit my garden or my budget I will not purchase it.
I will ration my gardening time. With a new child, 3 a.m. workday wake-ups, and Canadian Living columns to write, my gardening plate is full.I will stop digging more gardens and will make the existing ones lower-maintenance.
I will make my garden naturally fit. Since we should all become greener gardeners, I will choose disease- and insect-resistant plants (to reduce my use of chemicals) and remove any and all plants that require chemical control (this should also help me achieve Resolution No 3).
I will embrace nature. Bugs to slugs, cats to dogs, raccoons to deer I¹ll learn to live with them.
I will be more organized. I move things, I buy things, I plant things and then I move everything again. I will create a garden plan and follow it. And, since I¹m organizing, I also resolve to purge unused items from my shed.
I will be more water wise. My personal goal is to cherish this precious resource by creating mulched gardens full of dry-tolerant plants.
I will start a gardening journal and record the good, the bad and the beautiful, to guide my future goals.
I will improve my knowledge. I¹ve always wanted to learn more about grafting, so its time to enroll in a course.
I will stick to at least five of my resolutions. Anytime I make a list of resolutions, I also find it necessary to resolve that I stick to a few of them!!! Good luck with yours and Happy New Year!

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By Sharon Kinsman
29/09/2011 7:08 pm
Thank you Frank for the Moon Vine suggestion.We planted it by our Hot Tub and we are still enjoying the beautiful flowers.We have had such fun watching for the flowers and the white moths that seem to love it. Next year I am planting 3 because the leaves act as a perfect privacy fence
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29/09/2011 11:10 am
that’s an interesting recipe, besides I didn’t know that rhubarb
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By Rose
21/09/2011 3:44 pm
Hi Frank

I was just wonder, I would like to do my front garden, but it has about 4 peony plants, can I move them without damaging them? I also have caterpillars (black/reddish brown on them) how can I get them to not eat my plants?

thanks

Rose from Erin, Ontario
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