Garden Plot

It is getting cold outside and for many of you, spring gardens are the farthest thing from your minds. For those avid gardeners, however, this is the perfect time to begin plotting (pardon the pun) your big harvest for the next gardening season.

This is the perfect time to check out the new gardening tools or perhaps revisit some of the ones you missed out on this past season and add to your wish list of ideas for gifts for others to give to you.

It is always nice when you receive gifts of things that are near and dear to your passion. And for those on your list who you think might be interested in learning how to garden, it is a good opportunity to begin to plant seeds, as in gardening knowledge, to help in getting them started.

There are so many wonderful tools and books available and finding them is as close as the keyboard on your computer or the search button on your mobile device.

There are also a lot of great gardening apps available through Droid and Apple and depending on what you are looking for, many of these apps are free.

Here are a couple of ideas that you might wish to consider as you make your list:

  1. Spend an afternoon in a bookstore checking out the latest in gardening books. I find that although I can do this online, there is still nothing like feeling the pages as you thumb through a physical book.
  2. Supplement your physical search by searching for books online, including used books that are usually pretty easy to come by.
  3. Don’t be shy in sharing with your family and friends what you would like as this will also help them as far as saving time for taking care of their lists for holiday shopping.
  4. Be sure to consider supporting small businesses with your purchases as they normally offer products that are hard to come by in the big box retailers.
  5. Begin work planning your garden for the spring and remember to dream big.