Gardening and Growing Prompts for 2025
Dahlia
Chances are that if you are here, you enjoy growing something. Welcome!
As we kick off the new year as growers, I thought we could begin to get a bit organized with our growing plans.
Not to mention us fellow gardeners just love to plan and plot for our upcoming season of growth!
So please join me for a short gardening series throughout the next few weeks which is meant to inspire you, help you ask yourself some serious gardening questions while also assisting you to set your plans in motion.
Grab your journal and let us begin!
Golden hour in the greenhouse.
I remember my folks sitting around our yellow formica kitchen table during the months of January.
Planning the farm budget, the price of wheat and hay seeds and how much potato sets would be costing in the Spring.
I understand now that there was not only a financial side to planning, but I suspect it gave them both a glimmer of hope that Winter was not going to last forever.
I can still recall my Mother saying that the “ old north wind wailed like a banshee, and it’s true. It did.
Dahlias Bee Choice
Prompt for Today-What resources do you already have in place to grow in 2025
We might begin asking ourselves this:
How does my growing infrastructure look- do I need more raised beds, irrigation system, greenhouse, does my soil need amending.
Are my tools in good shape-do I need more or new wheelbarrows, shovels, hoes, hoses, fertilizer, potting trays or grow lights.
Sunnydell bouquet: Strawflower, assorted sunflowers, zinnias, chocolate lace flower.
Evaluate what is within our control and what is not in our control.
Let us begin asking ourselves this:
Is weather a major factor in aiding or hindering what we wish to grow-what can we logically and financially do to control our gardening environments.
How much sun and how much shade do our areas of growth really get-plant accordingly.
Do we have access to an adequate water supply-if not does our area allow us to dig a well, does our county or city impose water restricitons during certain times of the year.
What plants will thrive in our growing zone and local conditions without trying to force the environment to grow something that simply will not thrive.
Raised flower beds with hoops on them to attatch greenhouse plastic-when hail hits us.
You may have a similiar growing situation as Dave and I , our infrastructure is quite sound our weather is not.
I do believe that there will always be outside forces that we have to contend with as gardeners and growers.
Knowledge truly is power and if we educate ourselves on our individual environments our frustrations won’t be quite so daunting.
While Dave and I have built a dependable infrastructue for Sunnydell and grow some equisite blooms our elevation continues to plague us with high winds, hail, early frosts, limited thermal and unpredictable storms.
In order to work with our environment we built our greenhouse, sheds and raised beds, which also have the capability of being covered with greenhouse plastic as well.
Growing in the Greenhouse
As I write this post, I am also asking myself all of these questions.
I am finding as I share my flower farming journey with you all, I am learning so much!
Thank you for joining me and may we all grow and thrive together.
As Always,
Jemma
