What are your pre-planting projects this year?

goldenjes

I know we are all busy outside from planting time (usually around Mother's Day here) until harvest time, at least for vegetable gardens.

What are some of the things you're working on when the ground is hard or snowy?

goldenjes

I'm still trying to plan how I'll get this done - or at least priortize my list, but....

-Draw up new plans for front yard, hopefully using the Landscaper 3D program.  (New porch, small retaining walls, etc)

- Rip out large bushes in front yard, dig up "flower bed" along sidewalk

- Chop down some of the overgrown bushes in very back of property.

- Build 2 SFG containers to see if I can get peas & beans to grow this year, and hopefully have less weeding.  Tomatoes, peppers, & squash will most likely stay in the ground. 

- pruning apple trees (hiring someone) and chopping down 1/2 of the plum trees (us)

Dr.Loretta

Assuming we don't move, Dh said he's making me another raised bed garden, and he wants to move the existing one. I envision that happening in April-ish.

~NB~

Remodeling the house.

Most of the downstairs is gutted. I am losing a dining room and the french doors, but gaining a half bath and a mudroom, and creating a spacious new eat-in kitchen. But right now it's a horrific mess.

alliapistor

As soon as it is nice enough to be outside, I plan to mulch the new beds I dug in the Fall.  And then start the process of pulling up stuff in our older beds so that I can remove the landscape fabric and remulch.  I would like to get this done before stuff really starts growing.  We'll also have a lot of branch cleanup from these winter storms.

renee

I am starting to plan out the garden beds I am going to add to the backyard. We have been in our new house for 1.5 years and last year did an overhaul of the front, which also needs to be finished. We are going to move shrubs from the front to the side, add a few small retaining walls, plant a tree and add a few other shrubs. Then I can add perennials as I find them.

In the back, we have virtually no garden beds at all. I'd like to start them and add bigger things to screen out neighbors...then add things as I find them on sale, esp. next fall. Unfortunately it cannot be done all at once...I wish I'd win the gardening lottery just so I could do it all at once, ha ha! But there are a lot of flowering shrubs that I want to add, as well as trees, so I need to make a good drawing so DH will be on board....plus he needs to be able to visualize it.

Also, last year we added two raised veggie beds that I also use for herbs. I am excited to do some cold crops earlier from seed--lettuce and spinach. There are a few others but not ones that we'd really eat much of! I can start the greens seeds here as early as late March, which is not far off! Plus I am planning to experiment with doing some other seeds on our side garden which has electrical lines running underneath it!