Grow Your Own Tea

 

Setting Up a Garden Journal

 

Garden Planning

 

The Civic Beautification and Urban Forestry Group meets at the Parks and Recreation Administration Building, 1310 SW Avery Park Dr.

What to do in the Garden in January

Planning

• ✦  A garden journal is a very useful tool for planning for the growing season. Consider starting one in 2021. If you already have a garden journal, this is a good time to review it to determine what changes and additions you want to make in your garden in the year ahead.

• ✦  Check with local retail garden or nursery stores for seeds and seed catalogs to help you begin planning your vegetable garden.

• ✦  Take hardwood cuttings of deciduous ornamental shrubs and trees for propagation.

• ✦  Order a soil test to determine your garden's nutrient needs.
  Contact your local Extension office for a list of laboratories or search online for analytical laboratories serving Oregon. Click here for more information

  

  Houseplants and indoor gardening

✦ Monitor houseplants for correct water and fertilizer; guard against insect infestations; clean dust from leaves.

• ✦  Protect sensitive plants such as weeping figs from cold drafts in the house.

• ✦  Propagate split-leaf philodendrons and other leggy indoor plants by air-layering or vegetative cuttings. Click here for more information

• ✦  Plant dwarf annual flowers such as coleus, impatiens and seedling geraniums inside as houseplants.

• ✦  Gather branches of quince, forsythia and flowering cherries and bring them indoors to force an early bloom.

  
  
  
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From Benton County Master Gardeners -
Membership meetings: 3rd Monday Oct. to May 7:00pm - currently on Zoom