Our New Year Resolutions 2023

After the extraordinary gardening year we have in 2022, it’s not surprising that many of us are thinking of doing things differently in 2023. Here are some of our gardening New Year Resolutions:

•  Mine is plant more lavender. It likes my garden and is easy to maintain. (Liz Simmons)

• Plant more salvias for me, they’ve flowered their socks off for months, only giving up the ghost when the snow weighed them down, such good value but need to be hardy! (Alison Ball)

• Mine is to do less crocheting 😂. Seriously, to religiously go out there on Sundays while listening to GQT with my ear pods, I no longer get tangled up in the wires 😆. (Alison Simpson)

• Mine is to plant more hardy plants including salvias. I no longer heat my greenhouse as it's too expensive so have lost lots of plants and cuttings during the cold snap even though they were covered with two layers of fleece and the greenhouse was bubble wrapped.(Judy Taylor)

• Make a new bug house. Mine had collapsed under the snow. 🐞🐛🦟🪲🪳🐜🕷️.(Zubeida Roberts)

• Mine is to only buy plants when I know where I'm going to put them (without having to create a new flower bed). (Sue Pennicott)

• Hedge my bets with tomatoes. I always grow them in the greenhouse, which was a disaster last year, while those I gave away to grow outdoors did fantastically well - so some indoors and some outdoor, this year. Also sow more things direct to save heating the greenhouse, buying compost and using plastic. (Jane Cunningham)

Are there are more great resolutions out there? If you would like to add yours, just fill in the comments box below or email info@mardengardeners.uk