Happy New Year’s Eve GPOD!

Stepping into 2025 with new gardening goals and intentions. What are yours?

Happy New Year ’s Eve GPODers !

2024 is officially coming to a stopping point . As we give the concluding drapery call on this year there will be plentifulness of celebrating , but this is also an opportune fourth dimension for reflecting and setting our goals for next yr — including our goal and aim for the next growing time of year .

Whether you ’ve been garden for decades or just digging into your plant Passion , it ’s always significant to take bloodline of what went well this preceding yr and what needs some more work . Did you finally get flower on a plant that ’s been reluctant to flower in old years ? Did you test a new pruning or fertilizing technique that prove to be something you should have adjudicate ages ago ? Or is there a part of your garden that require a little help next spring ? Did you have to say goodbye to a plant after many age of development , and it ’s clock time to researching the best possible replacement ? To assist animate reflection ( and potentially persuade some of you to reconcile your gardening goals for 2025 ) , I ’ve decide to share my garden resolve for next year . And if you have n’t yet , go through some garden picture today and reminisce on what you and your plant have been through this year .

1.Give more attention to my indoor plants . I ’ve enjoyed my ever - growing houseplant appeal for several age now , but this is the first class I ’ve felt a battle to keep up . With lots of events , traveling , and just general life tenseness , I found my indoor plant experiencing elongated period of nonperformance . Thankfully , as someone inclined to cacti and succulent , most of my plants can sweep through this neglect and have survived a class of carer - induced drought . However , many are look a little worse for wear because of it . Next year I ’ll be hit a just exploit to give my indoor plants the attention they merit . ‘ Baby ’s Necklace’Crassulais one of my right-down favorite plants , my biggest regret this class is letting this stunner get to this sad state !

2.Get a good set up for my indoor plants . For a couple of years now all of my houseplants live on a table in front of a windowpane in my kitchen . While this certainly work , it was not an ideal set up for me or my plant . 2025 is the yr I ’m finally investing some time and money into my grow set up . I ’ve actually already made relocation on this destination , getting free of the old mesa . While they ’re presently enjoying a vacation on the dining elbow room table , this inconvenient spot is further encouragement to get my novel industrial plant shelf assembled ASAP .

3.Expand on the skills I ’ve acquired in my vegetable garden . This class was the very first year I mature vegetable and herbaceous plant from seed , and I ’m felicitous to report that it was a smashing success ! However , anyone that incline a vegetable garden knows that a smashing succeeder can also come with its own set of challenges . My ejaculate starting was so successful that I find myself with far too many plants and a garden that quickly grow out of control . Paired with a busy year where I did n’t dedicate enough prison term to maintenance that I would have liked , and my harvests were not as bountiful as my early plant maturation would have advise . But this twelvemonth of experience has really galvanized me to go in even stronger next year . take the knowledge I ’ve larn , I ’ll be starting seed again with more intention , far good planning , and more logical maintenance .

4.Be more thrifty in my horticulture habits . As I invest more and more metre into my flora enterprise , it becomes more and more patent that I require to be scotch with my garden practice . Whether your garden is a small plot of land , a windowsill , or an expansive landscape painting , you’re able to always find ways to deck a muckle of money into this enriching hobby . Like all of you , I ’ve spent my fairish share on plant life , pots , gadgets , etc . While I want to continue to grow and evolve my gardening practices , I need to commence utilizing some more free and cheap techniques . I plan on try out more with propagating and compile seeds . I ’ve already had some success with propagating . This ‘ Brasil’Philodendron hederaceumwas grown from a cutting off gift by a friend , and my mother was ready to pan this burro ’s fundament ( Sedum morganianum ) when I save the last string and a few fallen leaves to land it back to life sentence .

5 : Say cheerio to plants that just are n’t working . When we make New Years resoluteness ( indoors and exterior of the garden ) it can be easy to rattle off all of the newfangled thing we ’re choke to get around to doing this class . It can be a little harder to trap - direct the thing that are no longer serving us and that we require to step aside from . In ordination to accomplish all of the goals I listed above , it ’s time to say auf wiedersehen to some plants that are taking time out from more fruitful endeavors . This in the main includes some houseplants that I ’ve been barely keeping alive or continuously grease one’s palms replacements of ( find that this is the one that I ’m conk out to have success with ) . I ’ve also decided to quarrel begin herbs from seed this year , giving me more clock time to perfect my skills with vegetables . The living stone above are an instance of a industrial plant I need to put on the back - burner for now . I had a pretty good for you bunch , and one by one they have either rotten or dried out and died . I love they are n’t getting enough light , grounds by them stretching well beyond the dirt , but I also guess my soil admixture and throne pick were wrong . When I ’ve gotten a better handle on my other plants , maybe I ’ll get a new bunch and give these a go again .

leaping Ephemerals in Jay Sifford ’s Back Garden

Rabbits and Their Leftovers in Maxine ’s Garden

Late October in Cleo ’s Back Garden

highlight from Phyllis ’s Garden in New Jersey

BONUS : Continue to uprise the GPOD community and advance even more gardening discussion and comradery . In the additional time I hope to spend with my works in 2025 , I also hope to determine some divine guidance and ideas for continue to inject new life intoGarden exposure of the Day . I ’m endlessly inspired by the gardeners ( long - clock time contributors and new facial expression ) that keep this blog alive . If you ’ve been following GPOD for years or just discovered it in 2024 , thank you so much for being here . I need even more gardener to feel bucked up to divvy up their works in the young yr .

Thank you for hearing out my 2024 gardening lessons , and the end I ’m rent into 2025 . I hope some of these resonated with you , or that you ’re feeling inspired to indite your own 2025 garden goal . If you feel so prepared , deal your goals with GPOD ! clack ‘ View Comments ’ and login to gloss your finish below , or pursue the directions to submit your finish with photograph of your 2024 garden .

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