My garden did really well this past summer and I am super excited to start planning for next year’s. No doubt most of the planning will happen during the dreary, cold winter but I just can’t wait. I have already been making a wishlist.
Garden victories for 2014 include:
* Growing flowers for the first time – calendula, sunflowers, lavender, nasturtium, and various wildflowers
* Growing three types of basil
* Growing three types of heirloom tomatoes from seed
* A great blackberry harvest
* A nice snap pea harvest
* First time growing potatoes and carrots
* Keeping birds out of the garden with a fake snake. It worked!
I recently posted about my garden and homestead goals for 2015. In order to make the goals happen I have started making a wishlist of things that would help…
Support hoops for garden fabric. This will help me extend the gardening season earlier in the spring and then also later in the fall. I have the raised beds, I just need the hoops. I like that they are steel and not plastic.
A garden cage or two would be nice to keep the birds and the deer out of my raised beds!! They have them in a variety of sizes but the large one (below) would be super handy!
I also need space. I have tools, pots, soil, and other garden goodies everywhere and I have no real work surfaces outside other than the ground or the railing on my deck. A potting bench would be heaven sent! I love that this one has an old farmhouse look and it is affordable.
What’s on your wishlist??
Glad you had a great year of gardening! Hope next year is great, too
That’s a great gardening wish list! Christmas ideas, perhaps? ;-).
I don’t have garden wishlist for next year. I am not too like spend too much time in our garden.
I hope to have a house one day. We live in an apartment in Chicago and I would love to learn how to do this stuff someday.
We’re planning on doing a few vertical beds (almost like a bookshelf) next year for some of the smaller items. Then tubs for everything else. Hopefully we get some growth from our garden!
All of your garden goodies is on my wishlist! Must be fun to have fresh blackberries at your disposal. I can’t believe the birds fell for a fake snake. I need a garden cage one of these days – we have persistent deer.
Those are on my wish List too.
This is a good wish list. My gardening days for the season are done, but that potting bench I could still put to good use.
what a neat idea. i need to look into this for my garden. The rabbits got a lot of it this year
My wish would be to have a garden next year lol! My parents have a space they are going to let me use to garden! I can’t wait!
I need to upgrade my shed and I’d love some raised beds!