New year, new things, new plans… Soooooo excited! I can feel down in my gardener’s bones that it’s going to be a good one.
This month we can get a few warm weather things into the garden – BUT BE PREPARED TO PROTECT THEM! We might not have had any ‘winter’ yet, but we’re far from being out of the woods for some plant killing weather – frost or even a freeze… ya just never know.
WARM WEATHER PLANTS(GET SEEDS STARTED IN POTS SO THAT THEY WILL BE READY TO TRANSPLANT INTO YOUR GARDEN IN 4-6 WEEKS)
- Eggplants
- Peppers
- Tomatoes
- Watermelons
COOL WEATHER PLANTS
- Beets
- Broccoli
- Cabbage
- Carrots
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Chinese Cabbage
- Collards
- Endive/Escrole
- Kale
- Kohlrabi
- Leek
- Lettuce
- Mustard
- Onion – multiplier and bunching, but not bulb
- Peas
- Potatoes
- Radish
- Turnips
- Garlic
- Spinach isn’t on the “official” list but you could try it anyway
Next month the planting really breaks loose!
Noticed onions can be planted in Jan, but not bulb…what are the onion sets that Ace hardware is selling?? Assumed they were baby bulbs
Hey Dee… The dry bulbs you find at the hardware stores etc, do not produce a large bulb onion, they produce a single small onion… might be bunching, might be kinda like a scallion.
For the big bulbing cutting onions you need to get little plants. They come in bundles.
I love moving to East Central Florida 23 years ago. Where I can vegetable garden year round. My garden is 18’ wide by 55’ long. I’ve been adding a lot of compost every year for over 22 years. My garden soil is extremely rich. If the seed packet says up to ten pound cabbage. I get at least ten pound cabbages and so forth. All I add I lime. I don’t use any chemicals to grow my vegetables and use only organic pesticides when necessary. I grow all my vegetable and flower plants from seed. I do use very little miracle grow for starting the seeds, until I plant them. Any direct seeds into garden get no fertilizer. My soil doesn’t need any. I put down a ring of wood ashes around each vegetable plant to keep them from being cut down by cut worms. I do save non hybrid vegetable and flower seeds for the next seasons garden. This year I’m going completely non hybrid vegetables and flowers. No more buying expensive seed.
My Grandmother got me hooked when I was 12. By letting me plant radish seed in her vegetable garden. I was amazing that in just over a month. I was harvesting radishes. At my parents house. We had a big yard. I made a vegetable garden that was 20’ wide by 75’ long. My Grandmother also taught me how to make compost out of Horse Manure, hay and fallen leaves. We had a farm that had a lot of horses close by. My dad would take me with his pickup truck and get many loads of horse manure and hay mixed in, in the fall. I would add lots of fallen leaves that I would run over with our lawn mower. I would make a large pile of these ingredients and let it compost all winter into early spring. The horse manure ,hay and ground up leaves, pile would heat up to 150 degrees Fahrenheit. I would turn it once a month. By early spring the manure would be compost. Almost all weed seed was killed by the heat in the compost pile. That’s why I would turn it every month. The four homes I’ve owned . I always had vegetable gardens at.