Gardening Goals ~ 18-17 Weeks Before Average Frost Date

The Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook has flipped to the being again. This is one reasons I love this book so much. I can use it over and over again. Can you believe we are going to start seeds for 2021 Garden!!! I’m so excited. 2020 Gardening has harvested 151.28lbs of food! 😄 My goal was 100 lbs. We are still harvesting celery, rosemary, and sage out of the garden. My garden has become completely kid friendly, meaning nothing but water is going on it. My littles are little most are 3 and under, they grab food and eat it. I don’t want them to fear eating anything.

18-17 Weeks before average frost date

v  Clean up around the green house. Work on organizing it.

v  Place Seed orders- The magazines will be coming in soon, but I know there are something I want no matter what. I want to get them ordered.

v  Paint the roof of the Green house. It has been painted in a few years. I want it to last a long time. Painting it will help.

v  Hook up the heat to the green house.

v  Sow Herbs – Start Thyme and Parsley seeds.

v  Sow Vegetables – Start Onion and leeks.

v  Start to plan next year’s gardens. What do I want to grow?

I am so thankful this year for having the time to get back into my garden.  Know COVID-19 was a huge pain, but it did give me so much time for my garden and a chance to geek out about it. We have plans to extent it this year. Then it will be as big as I want it until we decide if we want to move or not. What are you doing in your garden?

 

Gardening time - 29 weeks after my last frost

 

I love my Garden time. It gives me a chance to be outside away from everything. Winter is coming though, which means it will be cold and get dark early. Therefore, there won’t be a much to do in the gardens. In Pa we will get snow, not a lot but several storms. At this time, I don’t have any grow tunnels. I do though have an amazing green house. I also have 2 aquaponic tanks in the house. I do get to grow a little more in the winter. I did reorder my Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook and it came. This book has always helped me know where I should be during the season. It helps me so much with my garden. I am in Southeast Pa, zone 6b. Our last frost was April 24^th, 29 weeks after my last frost. This is important to know what week you are on to use the book. This book gives you 4-5 things you should be working on. I will not write all of it and will adjust it to what I’m doing.

29 Weeks after last frost

v  Clean up around the green house. My Greenhouse needs a lot of love. It is such a hot mess I can’t get in it.

v  Weed the green house. I haven’t been in the green house this growing season, I bet there will be huge over growth.

v  Paint the roof of the Green house. It has been painted in a few years. I want it to last a long time. Painting it will help.

v  Order more hay. This will either be a huge help for my gardens or the biggest pain I’ have ever done.

v  Start to pick up the floor in the green house and organize it. Go though pots and start to clean them for next season.

v  Start to plan next years gardens. What do I want to grow?

I am a goal person. Being able to cross things of makes me so excited. What are you doing to make your garden grow?

Gardening - 19 Weeks Before Last Frost (2016 Garden) - Weekly Goals

     Can you believe it is the 2nd week into 2016 Gardening year!?! I can't. This week is still a lot of dreaming about my garden for the year. I love that I just get to think about what I want and go for it. 

Weekly Goals 

1. Plan gardens around - I use Garden Plan Pro. You can check out my review on this app on my post "Gardening tips - Gardening App". I have so many garden areas to plant and so many ideas in my head. 
2. Seed Inventory- I need to go throw my though my 3 seed boxes and pull out what I need for the house gardens. I will put them in the binder to. 
3.  Inventory seed starting supplies - Check my pots and make sure I have what I need to start planting my seeds. 
4.  Check over gardening tools - make sure I have all the tools I need. That they are cleaned and ready to go. 

     This week will be more putting my dreams on paper. I'm so excited. What are your goals for this week?

     I do know most of you are on different weeks than me because your zones are different. You can always go back and see my weekly wrap ups. 

           Gardening - Weekly Goals Weekly Wrap ups

Gardening - 20 Weeks before last frost - Gardening Goals Wrap up

Gardening - 6 week after last frost - harvesting mulberries

   

My harvest in the basket

     One of my gardening goals for 6 weeks after my last frost was to Harvest Mulberries and basil- my mulberry tress and basil plants are ready to harvest! This goal was a little trick to get done, because I want to do it as a family. It seemed like every night it rain. I got lucky on Monday and we had a little time before it rained. My little one and I head out and start to pick them off the tree. Then hubby came out with the latter not many were ready to be picked. We did harvest .33lbs so I will take that. I did also harvest some basil for dinner about 15 leaves which wasn't that much but it was something!! 

I weighed them. 

Gardening - 6 weeks after last frost 2015 - weekly goals

I'm still playing caught up, because of the  wedding. So I'm not where I would like to be but working hard to get there. How is your garden coming along??

Weekly Garden Goals

1. Plant flowers- I have found so many great deals on flowers this week. I have 5 flats to plant and didn't paid $17. 
2. Plant the rest of my peppers and orka- I started to plant them but haven't gotten to finsh it. 
3. Plant my herbs - I have basil, dill and parsley that need to be planted. 
4. Till the corn field - yes I know this is late but my corn is tall enough to go in the ground just have to till again. 
5. Harvest Mulberries and basil- my mulberry tress and basil plants are ready to harvest! 

What are your goals this week? How is you planting coming a long. What are you harvesting now?