How much will you miss outdoor gardening in the next few months?

I’d like to rearrange the axial tilt, just a little. O, for a fixed point!

 

Not giving up outdoor gardening here anyway. Different season so different jobs to do. Got some small trees need to be moved and some larger ones to be pruned to fit in their place in the garden a bit better. Chard is getting to the stage it will hopefully yield a few leaves for cooking and need to get the garlic planted. Maybe tomorrow will see some in the ground. Also good time for planting and transplanting where I find a space. Maybe I'm just lucky that when the wind comes from the south west it is just wet and not that cold so still a good few months to do a variety of gardening tasks.

Think I will divide the rhubarb a bit this winter as well and lots of used horse bedding will be spread about as mulch. More gardening will be done but its important with soil that has a lot of clay that I stay off it when it gets saturated so I suppose I will be restricting my gardening a bit as well. Also gives time to plan a bit on what to do about the place for next year and sort out what seeds I have that I can use before they go past their use by date by too much. If I get time I'll even try tidy up the polytunnel but days are short this time of year so restricted to when daylight outside work hours is free so bound to get less done than I'd ideally want to in the garden. Can't see me trying to rearrange the axial tilt so just going to make the best of the season that I can.

Happy gardening!

 

Winter is the time to catch up on batch Indian cooking (interesting for the first few weeks), bricolage (ditto), housework (buerk) and sewing (double buerk and definitely a last resort). The temporary conservatory provides hours of fun chasing scale insects and squishing aphids, as well as a jungly refuge when the lack of chlorophyll strikes....

 

Garden looks after itself here once it's winter. Everything that needs pruning/cutting back is done before then. I might do a bit of planning, but that's it. Too much frost/ice etc for successfully planting or moving anything here.
Doesn't bother me at all as I like winter and just do longer walks instead of any potential gardening jobs. Seed sowing is done in very late winter/early spring.

 

I carry on doing things in the garden all winter, obviously less to do but can always find something if the weather allows.
Only just started my winter prune of trees and shrubs, that always leaves me with lots of wood to shred and chip.
I dont do much in the way of cultivation as usually it's too muddy until around late March.
.Always some tidying up to do.

 

I carry on enough to not miss it too much - though it tends to be 'jobs in the garden' rather than 'gardening' per se. Sorting pots, tidying shed, making cloches etc. I'm still trying to work out a bit of a redesign so there might be quite a lot of walking around and staring .
The gardens where I volunteer weekly give us 3 weeks off, meaning almost 5 weeks between sessions. That I will really miss, but we don't get a choice.

 

I never stop in the winter. Most of my gardening is done between September and March. Only frosty days will stop me. The summer is for relaxing in the garden, boating and taking spins in a classic car. Nothing is planted or moved between April and August. I try and make the most of any good weather then.

 

I’m planning to do a lot of garden planning this winter! And I have shrubs to hard prune or remove, paving to de-mossify, and various other repair jobs, like the broken rose arch that needs removing and replacing. I’ve also just taken delivery of a new compost bin that needs assembly, and I’d like to try my hand at renovating the little wooden greenhouse that we brought from our old house.

The worst thing is going to be if it’s too wet - last winter was almost constant rain here in South Wales, and I at least want a dry day if I’m going to be out there!

 

I’m definitely a fair weather gardener so winter wet and cold dampen any gardening urges. I do like to get outside on a crisp sunny day so enjoy any winter pruning that’s needed. I let everything die down naturally for wildlife so the hardest task sometimes is resisting the urge to get outside and tidy up when I haven’t anything else that needs doing. Usually that itch hits in January/February when the new gardening year is near but not near enough.

We tend to go out for more walks in Winter as our outdoor fix.

 

If not too wet then carry on as normal, seldom have to worry about frozen ground here in soggy Paignton, but it can be too wet to walk on the soil. I can also retreat to the good sized greenhouse, check things over, water as necessary and also clean the glass.

 

If I was younger I'd get as bigger poly tunnel as I could fit in so as to extend the season as much as possible.
Dry workable soil in mid winter would appeal to me.

 

Work in the actual garden is out for us, too wet and cold, but we do have some heat in our lean-to greenhouse so we can often get in there to potter around.
Even if its freezing outside, as long tas their is some sunshine it can warm up to a decent temperature.
Currently busy with cuttings of Fuschias and Pelargoniums we took from the outdoor plants and baskets and keeping other tender plants in our small heated Orchid enclosure.

@LawnAndOrder - what about you in the warmer south - do you have chance to get into your garden ?

 

'tis the time to dig!

My garden is currently a blank canvas of established weeds, and by May it should be a promising space with a large pond, curving gravel path and well dug areas to plant my cuttings and small, bought plants.

Gardening in winter is so rewarding, the smell and feel of soil whacks me right out of the weekly office worker feeling into something more meaningful. Minus the nail polish.

Then around the Christmas sofa time it genuinely changes into next-season time and various seeds get ordered and sown with a lot of daydreaming, planning and anticipation.

Winter gardening is not as much about dealing with the green parts, but about the others. Seeds, cuttings, soil, structure... quite exiting. Summer is more about observing, relaxing and Pinot Grigio

 

With a 'new to me' home of three months I'm still juggling things inside and out. Although this garden is small there are a lot of shrubs, all of which need some taming as the place stood empty for some while. I made a start on those just over a week ago but there's still plenty to do and I will continue through the winter. Huh! I've just noticed it's snowing - oh well!