You may read this and think “Maybe I should do something like that.”, or you may think “That Peggy is CRAZY. It’s January.” Either way, there’s lots of time until spring, or I’m just getting started.
On the 7th I planted seed for the 5 different lettuce varieties I grew last year: Green Deer Tongue, Little Gem, Romaine ‘Parris Island’, Red Sails, and Drunken Woman Frizzy Headed. (Sometimes I buy plants just because of the name.) Green Deer Tongue is my favorite. I planted twice as much of it, because you can harvest the whole plant by cutting it at the base, then it will grow back, and you can harvest again.
Here they are on the 28th. Soon after taking the picture, I started planting the largest ones into those little 4 packs.
For the past 2 years I’ve grown my own tomato and pepper plants from seed, and for the past 2 years I’ve ended up buying them at the plant sale in spring. Mine are always still so small, and I’m impatient to start eating fresh. So this year I planted much earlier than ever before. On the 28th I planted 3 packs each of banana, jalapeño, Anaheim, poblano, red, green, yellow/orange and Serrano peppers. I also started 8 tomato plants of 4 different varieties.
The flower seeds sown in late January were: blanket flower, (Gaillardia “Mesa Yellow”), Salvia “Artemis”, columbine “Oragami”, Rudbeckia ‘Denver Daisy’ and Alstroemeria.
I started 3 new six packs of coleus.I’m not sure what I’ll do with all of it, but you have to pinch them back to make them bush anyway, and I can hardly stand to just throw it away. Just cut a piece, remove the bottom set of leaves, and bury it in fine potting soil. They are so easy. You could root them in water, but that just seems like an extra step. The salad I buy at Sam’s comes in these big plastic containers. I put the plants in one, and cover it with another. Leave a little water in the bottom. In 2-3 weeks you should be able to remove the cover. Transplant them to something larger in another 3-4 weeks.
Other miscellaneous chores completed in January:
I moved a dozen miscellaneous perennials, and split a couple in the process. (I split one of the grasses into 3, and moved that Euphorbia “Silver Swan” over to make room.)- Cut back 6 butterfly bushes
- Pruned my Lady Banks rose (You are supposed to prune it after it blooms in early spring, but mine was so overgrown it was trying to choke one of the butterfly bushes.)
- Finally finished cutting back the last of the perennials (The grasses are an exception. I’ll leave them until Feb. I also leave the tender perennials, such as lantana, until late March. It helps them survive the winter.)
- Sprayed “Neem” oil on most of my evergreen shrubs
- Cleaned all old blooms and old foliage from 5 Hydrangeas “Endless Summer”. It had some type of leaf spot last year, so I threw everything in the trash instead of on the compost, and I sprayed the stems and the soil around it with “Neem”.
Reworked the stones that edge the beds on either side of the steps. They had sunk too deep. I lifted them, added sand underneath, reset them, and raked the mulch where it belongs. A nice edge really makes a garden look neat and tidy. - Placed my seed orders with Park Seed and Thompson & Morgan
- Ordered a bunch of spectacular new perennials from Plants Delight. I got my order in so early, they weren’t sold out of anything yet. I ordered a winter blooming iris I’ve been wanting for a couple years and some other cool stuff. This is VERY exciting!
- But the MOST exciting thing for me in January was I started this blog!!!
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