Garden Resolutions for 2008

Even though the New Year has passed, it is never too late to make a resolution. Garden resolutions can be fun and easy. Most resolutions fail because people set their expectations too high. Here are a few suggestions that will not only benefit you but will also benefit the little creatures in your garden.

Why not hang a bat house (you can build one yourself), a single bat can eat a thousand mosquitoes a day or put a toad house in your garden. Toads eat tons of bugs.

Decide that this is going to be the year that you finally feed and nourish all those perennials in your garden with that mushroom compost you’ve heard so much about (available at Oceanview Garden Centre and Landscaping). Then once you’ve finished applying the compost reward yourself with that newly introduced perennial you’ve been eyeing but wouldn’t spend the money on.

Resolve to plant a tree in memory of someone you’ve lost.

Bite the bullet and actually attend that free gardening workshop that you signed up for then take one thing that you learned from it and use it to benefit your garden.

Put in a hummingbird garden, you’ll be amazed how fast these little creatures will find it. Ask our knowledgeable staff what plants are best.

If you want to be really ambitious decide to put in your very own organic vegetable patch. You will be so pleased with your produce and how good you will feel with the knowledge that you did it yourself you will do it every single year.

The list of garden resolutions is limited only to your imagination but whatever you decide make it doable and stick with it.

Good Luck and Happy Gardening!