Happy New Year, gardenerds! The 2025 gardening season starts with seed catalogs and big dreams in winter 2024/25. At the end of January we'll start tomato seeds indoors for late-March planting (in warm-winter areas). Until then, it's time to dream big and plan your strategy for spring. Seed catalogs are ready to peruse and help plan your dream garden. These are some of our favorites. Find more on our Links Page Next week we'll share some of our new seed…
For the last podcast of the year, we share year-end thoughts with Christy. She highlights a few beautiful new seeds to try, and talks about New Years resolutions.
As we dive into 2022, our first video of the year offers 5 vegetable gardening tips.
The New Year brings New Year's Resolutions, and Gardenerd is no exception. What will those resolutions be this year? In previous years, we've suggested lifestyle changes to live more lightly upon the planet.
On this, the most reflective day of the year, let's look back at our gardening experience this year and make plans for the next. It's time to make New Year's Gardening Resolutions.
New Year's resolutions are tough. I'm torn between motivation to make changes, and residual exhaustion from last year telling me to take it easy. Usually that exhaustion wains as spring draws near, as excitement for new seedlings permeates my world. So with hope in the wings, here are two resolutions to share for the coming year: Self-Care We all know that self-care is hard. We sacrifice ourselves for our families, for clients, for the cause. It's easy to burn out.…
Thank you to everyone who participated in our New Year's survey about what you want to learn in 2018. It's so helpful to know what you gardenerds want to explore this year. It's hard to limit the choices to just 3, but it does help narrow the field. Which Topic Won? Topping the list of topics to cover in 2018 were: What to Grow When? Organic Pest Control Garden Design Surprisingly, Garden Design rose to the top three from pretty…
Every gardener needs tools to keep a garden healthy and thriving. This is not only true for the garden, but for the gardener. We get tired, overwhelmed, frustrated, bored, and burned out each year, especially when garden failures appear to outweigh successes. It's 2018, a fresh start with seed catalogs arriving daily to re-ignite the passions that may have sputtered out over the past gardening season. But what if that's not enough? How do we rejuvenate? What tools do you…
My New Year's Resolution for 2018 is one word: Voice. Why?
I’m not a big fan of New Year’s Resolutions. High expectations at the beginning of the year often lead to disappointment in a short time, once life steps in to remind us why we didn’t check off those resolutions last year. I’d rather make a list of hopes and aspirations for the year instead. Then each accomplishment is a celebration when achieved. We had a very busy 2015 here at Gardenerd, so the goal for this year is balance. Here…