garden expectations and projects for 2025

Hello everyone,

Where I live, the garden slowly starts awakening.

What are your plans and expectations for this growing season ?

I'll start : in the vegetable garden tomato poles are planted, fava beans are sown, autumn garlic and onions are sprouting ; apple, pear, peach trees buds are swelling ; Judas'  trees and common ash are still sleeping. Patience dock, goutweed, sweet cicely and red fennel are stretching their first leaves. Hazelnut and Japanese cherry tree pollards are being harvested.

I will test three different ground covers this year : aged compost and living weeds on a part of the garden, wood chips on another and hay on the last, all from other parts of the garden. I will try to replant the same vegetables under all three covers to see which one is best in my area.

I placed planks on the growing areas to catch slugs, as the first Spanish slug has been spotted. I had a massive invasion last year, bud did surface composting ; this year the compost heap has been placed outside the veggie garden.

As for fruit trees, I have nearly packed the garden. Maybe I still have some place for a persimmon or a second olive tree ...

Have a nive evening,
Oliver

Where I am things are still wintery.  But I expect change will come over us soon.  I am finally getting a yard to grow things in, rather than a balcony so I'm so excited.  But for now I'll plant everything in pots come spring and do some transplanting in late May/early June when the time comes.

I plan to do year 3 of an ongoing trial of a traditional native American-style 3-sisters garden. I hope to plant corn in mid-May, beans a week or two later, and squash shortly after that. The garden is about 279 square meters, 3000 square feet. Right now the ground is frozen and nothing is growing.

My plans and expectations...Hmm, not always the same thing!

I'm hoping to take delivery of the parts to rebuild my new polytunnel shortly. Erecting that will be one big project.

dream polytunnel

I got a bit excited and ordered a few more bare root trees for the tree field: alder, hornbeam and rowan. I also ordered a few Japanese wineberry plants, which are new to me, so I don't know how they will do. Other than that I've been fairly restrained (if you don't count my exciting plants from ART which arrived at the end of last year, but still need planting out).

I want to dig as many mini-hugel berry banks as I can manage.

My Farming area should be ready to go, more or less. I have saved seeds for all my crops now, but probably will try a few new varieties to mix in too. Hopefully I'll manage to get my root crops to actually grow this year (a complete wash out last year!)

I'm rebooting my polycultures area. It is really too compacted, so I'm going to mix roots and greens together in both areas so as reduce the compaction a bit when I harvest the roots.

Hoping for lots of soft fruit again, and maybe a ripe walnut this time!

Planting lots and lots of veggies, fruit, herbs and flowers. I added 3 bare-root peach trees, and a bare-root elderberry. Planted a new covered strawberry bed. I want to get some raspberry, blackberries, and blueberries.
My kids plan to plant several rows of corn, I will probably add some beans, squash and melons. I have no idea if we will get anything. I've stopped planting in the unprotected ground because of a major gopher problem, so we'll see.
Grow grow grow, that's the plan.