January Gardening

• Start gathering ideas for your garden, then make a sketch so that you can plan what goes where.
• Clean up fallen leaves and debris and put them into your compost pile.
• Prepare your veggie and annual beds by tilling in organic matter (Do Not Till Wet Soil - wait till it dries out some)
• Spray Dormant Oil on Trees when temperature will be above 40 degrees for 12 hours or more.
• You can seed you tomato and pepper plants indoors or in cold frames.
• Plant More Winter Annuals like Snapdragons, Pansy, Ornamental Cabbage, Kale, Calendula, Stock, Cyclamen, Dianthus and Violas.
• Plant the following veggies: Beets, Chinese Cabbage, Carrots, Chard, Collards, Garlic, Kale, Lettuce, Mustard, Parsley, Peas (garden), Radishes, Spinach, Shallot & Turnip. Select the best varieties for our area!
• Spray or dust your cabbage and broccoli with Dipel (a.k.a. Thuricide & B.T.) to safely control loopers.
• Plant your onion bulbs!
• Divide perennials like iris, shasta daisy, daylillies.
• Strawberry plants can be planted.
• Great time to plant trees and shrubs!
• Fertilize your over-seeded lawns with a slow release fertilizer.
• Cut back your perennials to about 3 inches above the ground and put the debris in your compost pile. Heavily mulch those perennials that are more tender.
• Plant blackberries now, if you'd like.
• Feed the birds.
• Have Fun!