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Plan of work in the garden and garden for January
Of course, there are not as many tasks in January as in the high season, but there are a few things that cannot be shelved. Moreover, there is work not only at home, but in the garden.
8 / Sat / Grows
Auspicious day to plant seeds for stratification. You can transplant indoor plants.
9 / Sun / Grows
It’s time to sow the seeds of watercress, mustard, radish for vitamin greens. Shake the snow off the tree branches in the garden.
10 / Mon / Grows
A favorable day for caring for indoor plants – you can transplant them, water them, treat them for diseases and pests.
11 / Tue / Grows
One of the most favorable days of the month – you can take care of indoor plants, sow seeds for seedlings.
12 / SR / Grows
Today you can make a plan for future plantings, buy seeds and garden tools. Plants are best left undisturbed.
13 / Thu / Grows
It’s time to check the tubers of begonias and dahlias and corms of gladiolus laid in autumn for storage. Rotten must be removed.
14 / Fri / Grows
You can transplant indoor plants. In the southern regions, it’s time to sow flower seeds for seedlings, but the seedlings will need additional lighting with fitolamps.
15 / Sat / Grows
It’s time to visit the garden – shake off the snow from the coniferous plants and shelter them from spring sunburn, if you didn’t do it in the fall.
16 / Sun / Grows
A good day to buy seeds and gardening tools. Plants today is better not to disturb.
17 / Mon / Grows
In the garden, it is useful to organize snow retention, throw snow on the beds and on top of heat-loving plants, fill bird feeders.
18 / Tue / Full Moon
No plant work! But you can go to the store and buy seeds for future crops.
19 / Wed / Decreasing
Another unfavorable day for working with plants. But it does not hurt to check the tubers and bulbs laid in the fall for storage.
20 / Thu / Descending
You can plant root crops for distillation, feed houseplants and treat them for diseases and pests.
21 / Fri / Descending
It’s time to prepare the soil and containers for seedlings. In the garden, continue snow retention activities.
22 / Sat / Descending
Today you can feed indoor plants and treat them from diseases and pests. And don’t forget to put food in the bird feeders.
23 / Sun / Descending
You can put root crops for distillation, feed indoor plants – it is best to use liquid complex fertilizers.
24 / Mon / Descending
No plant work! It’s time to make a plan for future plantings and a list of necessary purchases for the garden.
25 / Tue / Descending
Another unfavorable day for working with plants. But in the garden and garden you can do snow retention.
26 / Wed / Decreasing
It’s time to revise the planting and sowing material. Inspect the tubers and bulbs stored in the fall, check the seeds.
27 / Thu / Descending
An ideal day to fight diseases and pests. But for sowing and planting today is not the best period.
28 / Fri / Descending
A favorable day for any work with plants – you can take care of home flowers, sow seeds for seedlings.
29 / Sat / Descending
You can prepare the soil for seedlings and transplant indoor flowers – soon they will start to grow, they need new pots.
30 / Sun / Descending
In the garden, it is useful to organize snow retention and renew the whitewash on fruit trees, provided that the temperature is above -5 ° C.
31 / Mon / Descending
You can pick the seedlings, pinch the tops of the flowers so that they bush better. Planting and sowing today is undesirable.
gardening in january
Shake off the snow from the branches of trees and shrubs. In January, heavy snowfalls often occur, and even worse if a thaw begins after them, and then frost again – in this case, trees and shrubs are covered with an ice crust and often, unable to withstand its severity, break. Therefore, after each snowfall, you need to shake off the snow from the branches.
Young trees and plants with thin trunks are easy to shake. From old snow, you can beat it with a stick, previously wrapped in a cloth – so as not to damage the bark.
Trample snow around apple and pear trees. In ancient times, there was such a tradition in Our Country – the peasants, together with their children, went out into the garden and danced around apple trees and pears. And not just for fun – this ritual also had a practical meaning: a dense layer of snow did not allow mice to reach the bark. Trampling snow is also advised in professional literature, and this should be done after each snowfall (1).
But it is impossible to trample snow around stone fruit trees – they can support the root neck.
Remove pest nests. In January, tree crowns are very well visible, so it is very easy to find the nests of wintering pests. Remove and burn any cocoons you find on the branches (2).
Hang bird feeders. In January, the birds have the most difficult time – there is a lot of snow, it is almost impossible to fish wintering larvae out from under it. For example, in winter, out of 10 tits, only two survive until spring. Meanwhile, one pair of these birds is able to clean up to 40 fruit trees from pests! And in order for them to become your reliable assistants at the height of the season, in January you need to support them.
The favorite treats of tits are unsalted bacon, unroasted sunflower seeds (3) and millet.
Send seeds for stratification. The seeds of most fruit trees germinate only after they have been out in the cold for some time.
“The most correct thing is to sow them before winter immediately in open ground,” says agronomist-breeder Svetlana Mihailova, – but this method has drawbacks: in a snowless winter, they can freeze, in spring they can be flooded with melt water, or mice will eat them from hunger.
It is safer to stratify them at home in the refrigerator. To do this, the seeds are mixed with wet sand and cleaned in vegetable calving for 1,5 – 3 months (depending on the crop). Apple and pear seeds, for example, are laid for stratification in the first decade of January (2).
garden work in january
Throw snow on the beds. Some crops, including perennial vegetables, do not tolerate severe frosts. And the best shelter for plants is snow. Therefore, after each snowfall, throw it on the beds with perennials.
– Yes, and the rest, too, – advises agronomist Svetlana Mikhailova. – In the spring, when the snow begins to melt, the soil is saturated with moisture and the seeds, when sown in open ground, will give more friendly shoots.
Fill the greenhouse with snow. Be sure to throw some of the snow into the greenhouse – here it will play the same role as in the garden: in the spring it will saturate the soil with moisture. This is important because the snow itself will not get into the greenhouse.
Clear the snow from the roof of the greenhouse. But it needs to be removed from the roof – after each snowfall. Because a lot of it can be piled up, and the structures of greenhouses, especially inexpensive ones, are often not designed for such a mass and can bend or break.
Folk omens for gardeners in January
- The first days of January set the tone for May – if it is sunny and warm, then in May, on the contrary, it will be cold and windy.
- If it is warm in the second half of January, then the summer will be fruitful.
- The warmer January, the later spring will come.
- If the beginning of January is cold and frosty, then February will be snowy, and summer will be hot and good.
- Frequent snowstorms in January – frequent rains in summer.
Sources of
- Lavrik P.I., Rybitsky N.A., Gavrilov I.S. Gardener’s desk book // L.: Lenizdat, 1972 – 568 p.
- Kamshilov A. and a group of authors. Gardener’s Handbook // M .: State Publishing House of Agricultural Literature, 1955 – 606 p.
- Malchevsky A.S., Pukinsky Yu.B. Birds of the Leningrad Region and adjacent territories // L .: Leningrad University Publishing House, 1983.