{"id":1302,"date":"2018-01-05T09:51:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T14:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2018-01-05T09:51:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T14:51:31","slug":"new-years-gardening-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/2018\/01\/new-years-gardening-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Gardening Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_3467.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1303 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_3467-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_3467-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_3467-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_3467.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_3467-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Happy New Year, MGEVs! I hope that you had a healthy holiday season and that you are managing to stay warm. If you are staying inside, checking out all of those tempting catalogs coming your way, you might be making a list of goals for your gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I have few gardening goals for the year. Probably the biggest, most important New Year&#8217;s Gardening Resolution for me is to &#8220;keep it simple&#8221;!! This is my list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plant the contorted filbert purchased last fall.<\/li>\n<li>Plant lovely container gardens at home.<\/li>\n<li>Plant lovely container gardens at the Cowart Building (home of the UGA Horticulture Department here in Griffin).<\/li>\n<li>Remulch my beds with pine straw.<\/li>\n<li>Grow enough vegetables for fresh consumption. (At my house, I am responsible for the sugar snap peas, spring and fall broccoli, bush beans, squash, annual herbs, and growing the warm-season vegetable transplants. My husband takes care of the tomatoes, corn, pole beans, pumpkins, and pest control.)<\/li>\n<li>Install a new fence for the vegetable garden.<\/li>\n<li>Build a new raised bed for an asparagus patch.<\/li>\n<li>Locate, purchase, and plant either a Trident maple or a Paperbark maple.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1306\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1306\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_1256.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1306\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_1256-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_1256-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_1256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_1256-104x138.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oncidium &#8216;Sharry Baby&#8217; smells just like chocolate &#8212; no kidding!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And by the way, I am trying my hand at orchids (it&#8217;s a competition with my older sister to see whose thumb is greener!). I brought home an orchid from Hawaii last September and have another that has been languishing. They can be extraordinarily beautiful, so I am anxious to make these plants happy!<\/p>\n<p>What are you planning to do this year? Do you have projects for your personal gardens? Does your MGEV project team have goals for a demonstration or community garden? How can UGA Extension support you with those project goals? Let me know by responding in the comment box!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year, MGEVs! I hope that you had a healthy holiday season and that you are managing to stay warm. If you are staying inside, checking out all of those tempting catalogs coming your way, you might be making a list of goals for your gardens. 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