January: What to do in your Garden (East Side Orlando FL, zone 9b)
- Please be patient! Don’t start cutting back all the frost-bitten parts of your plants. In the event of more freezing nights that plant material will help protect your plants.
- Color your flower beds by planting cold season annuals such as:
Petunias
Pansies
Alyssum
Begonias
Snapdragons
Violas
Dianthus - Add a bird feeder and bird bath to your yard.
- Look through online catalogs and order seeds, bulbs and plants now. Some nurseries give a discount for early orders.
- Plant cold-tolerant vegetables like cabbage, broccoli and lettuce, and start your tomatoes and pepper plants in pots to be transferred to your garden after the danger of frost.
- Now is the perfect time to transplant shrubs and deciduous trees.
A simple and fun project: Offer nesting material for the local birds.
Collect soft materials such as combed out dog fur, human hair, short pieces of string and wool, strips of cloth, bits of cotton. Stuff the nesting material in a bird cake feeder, or make a ‘cage’ out of recycled items (strawberry baskets, onion nets, etc.) and hang them out in your yard.
For detailed instructions click here
Quote of the Month
“Whether the weather be fine or whether the weather be hot
we´ll weather the weather whether we like it or not”
