This post is for all you gardeners who, like me, can garden all year round. I'm in California, and in the "cold" months, I still have lots of things to grow. If you haven't tried to keep color in your winter garden, why don't you start this year?
Take a quick trip to your local nursery, and choose from a very large array of flowers and flowering plants to grow right now. Everything from azaleas to vincas, to the poinsettias you bought at Christmas, and dozens of other choices, you can have a lot of fun and keep a beautiful garden all thru these months.
For you vegetable gardeners, this is a great time of year!!! Now is the time to plant lettuce, spinach, broccoli, strawberries, and any other vegetable that is grown in the cooler months. Don't hesitate, do it now, and you'll have a fine crop in a few months.
And, last but far from least, get ready to plant outdoors by starting your favorites from seed, inside. Yeah, buy some seeds, for tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, etc. and start them inside. They'll be ready to put outdoors by March, when the temperatures should be safely above 40 degreees at night thruout southern California. In Hawaii and Florida, you shouldn't have to worry about cold nights, so go ahead and get started outside with the winter flowers.
Keep gardening, and have fun. Questions? Email me at: tsmith203@hotmail.com
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