Garden Planning for 2025 – Five Minute Friday – In this video we talk about planning or the garden next year.
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31 Comments
you consistently leave out knowing how rainwater moves through your property and how to slow it and sink it.
I hope you will film the making of your new composting set up! I’m currently brainstorming how I can create a bigger composting situation for my yard. It’ll be interesting to watch how y’all tackle it.
Thanks much! We are redesigning our backyard, planted grass on part of yard just before the rains came in November. Now just getting ready to chip the perennials with pine straw and put in a few borders. Appreciate your videos and looking forward to the next one
We are planning a path at the side of the house leading to the greenhouse. We have chosen the supplier of slate paddlestones. Just need to think when we will have time and energy to do it. Also experimenting with growing perennials from seed. We started some in September / October and seeing if they survive the cold period outside now for the vernalization process. Will be fun to see if any survive and flower.
I appreciate you getting me thinking about next year’s garden. I hope to put in a front walk of some sort and a formal(ish) courtyard kitchen garden. Happy gardening!
Thank you Jim and Stephany for sharing this great video! Love all the tips. I am hoping to add a bit more depth to my beds come spring. Have a nice weekend. 😊
I moved into a 34 year old home five years ago that didn't have a single living tree or shrub. LOL. After hiring some fellas to remove dead trees and roots, I started from scratch a year later, which has been a difficult but exciting journey. The winter is always my time of reflection and planning for the spring 🌼🌱. I garden for the birds, so that they have places to hide and rest for all seasons. Plus at least half of my plants provide food for them. Thanks for such helpful videos Jim!!❤
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In 2025 I will be seeing the results of using Soil3 compost in some of my garden beds. In my main front yard circle bed I have recently replaced many old crowded daffodils with newer more colorful varieties, and looking forward to their bloom. In that same bed I will look to see how my new kousa dogwood does after planting it in April 2024. I will also look forward to see how adding some compost to established shrubs in the back yard will hopefully improve their growth performance.
Our hardscape went in this February and now we are planning our plants to go around it
Planning on removing more bermuda grass in the backyard (in addition to connecting circles in front yard). We have a line of full size water oaks on a short slope along the back of the property which is dry, mostly sunny now. The grass runs a couple feet up the slope so thats gotta go. We planted a couple of young fruit trees last year below the area to start some shade, and as we're mulching that bank, I realize I want to remove all the bermuda anywhere beyond the front of the fruit trees. (It doesn't grow well anyway, and is a pain to mow between the beds established for the fruit trees).
Thank you for posting for a variety of ground conditions. Very informative and helpful!
Is it because if sun exposure or space that you r putting the compost set up there? Why not towards the back of your yard? Too shady? Thx for your 5 min Fri’s !🌿
Here in Central Texas (8b/9a), the heat and the cold are stressful for shrubs, even for those which are zone 7 hardy. Because of that, I have been planting more perennials than I ever did in the past. For the first time this year, we had more area covered by perennials than we did shrubs. The pollinators here love the variety they provide, starting in March and continuing until hard frost.
I have a couple of spaces in my garden that I hope to add to or redesign this year. We have two large rhododendrons that have been unhealthy for a few seasons. I will be sorry to lose their effective screening but I have exciting new ideas for a mixed screen (thanks to HT) that I want to put into place. Thanks so much for years of information and inspiration on this channel! Here’s to your new projects in 2025!
We're getting a jump start on 2025 here in our California zone 8b/9a garden by removing certain roses that had developed naked, 3 or 4 inch thick canes on the lower part and were dying cane by cane. This week we pulled out 5 of them. I want to reduce maintenance as we are both aging and we still have 30 roses left. So now I am contemplating what to replace them with to provide my beautiful heucheras the shade that the old roses provided. Shade is a rare commodity on our property and trees are not an option.
One thing I do now, is winter pruning trees or shrubs that have a tendency to water sprout or shoot out lanky limbs after pruning. Since they're dormant they can't really respond, and borers can't get into the wood. Things like crape myrtle, smoke bush, and redbuds get pruned now. Also things like Rose of Sharon that drop tons of seed, I prune all their seed pods. I do this every year despite the cold temperatures, and prefer it to spring pruning.
Planning is ongoing. I agree re shrubs etc initially small so one needs to plant things to tide over until the shrubs need mature length. A tricky element to plan for.
I moved into my zone 6b house in 2023. Nothing in the back yard but an oak and a tulip tree, and neglected grass from fence to fence. This year I put in several beds, focusing on adding understory trees and shrubs. This year I also discovered a serious drainage problem in the back corner of the yard. 2025 will start with improving that drainage, adding one or two more beds, continuing to add shrubs and finally beginning to add significant numbers of perennials so my beds can start to fill in so I don't have to bring in so much mulch! I know I have 2-3 more years of things maturing before things start to look the way I want them to but I can already see it in my mind's eye! Thanks for your great videos, Jim!
I have come to the conclusion my yard has too much shade making this years' garden a bust. Still don't know what ate leaves of beans either.
I will be taking down one tree that is in bad shape & prune couple more but will be scaling down the garden this year 'til I know what works!
Thank you, Jim and Stephany. It's always fun learning all the different ways to make a beautiful garden and flowers 💐
Congratulations, Jim and Steph!
My plan is to convert at least 2/3 of my suburban backyard into garden area, inspired by your videos! I drew out a garden design to scale using graph paper. Realistically it's going to be my 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, …and onward… plan because I don't have as much time to work outside as I would like, so I will tackle one area each season. I do have experience gardening in my foundation beds over several years and I'm excited for the challenge of designing "floating" beds rather than ones backed by a large structure.
Good info. as always.
Just back from the big box stores where arbs are 50-75% off (on what’s remaining). Grabbed a few arborvitae for under $10 a piece which are fully capable of going in the ground now in zone 7a.
I’ve struggled to layout a great garden design on paper because changes require almost starting over. Yet I have not found an app or other solution. Can you make a recommendation?
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Kansas City, zone 6b. I am adding a large planting bed in my backyard. My winter planning is focusing on installing drip, planting trees, shrubs and some perinneals and then fill in with annuals.
Portland Oregon Zone 8b. Your channel has been incredibly inspirational and has been a fantastic resource for my home landscaping. Thank you! I will be clearing a large steep bank of blackberry and English ivy in hopes of replacing with a mix of native plants, conifers and Japanese maples. Wish me luck on the Ivy and blackberries. I'll need it.
Planning….again on how to keep 🦌 out of my yard. Plan B…
My favorite gardening activity is planning. Last spring I covered a section of grass with fabric, and removed it late November to cover with compost and mulch. I'm finally ready to plant! The idea of crowd planting is something I want to try. I also want to plant vegetables in this area, instead of in a separate garden.
I’ll be creating more beds!
In 2025 I plan to dig out some more bermuda grass to make for easier maintenance of the garden beds that I expanded in 2023 and early 2024. I also plan to remove some bermuda grass from another area to provide additional space where we can leave more fallen tree leaves in our yard.