How to plan Winter gardening do-it-yourself projects

Winter is coming. Outside gardening is coming to an end for the season, but there are still gardening-related projects you can do over wintertime. Consult with your "Honey" combine your project lists and create files. Plan the projects prudently and get entire family involved.

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How to plan Winter gardening DIY projects

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Dust off old gardening To Do lists from your garden desk and workbench area. Go through them to make sure you have not already completed the projects or you have changed your mind. Go over the list to with your honey to make sure she is in agreement. Go on-line, to the Library, to the Home Store gardening book racks, and to your local Nursery or Home Store Garden Department for new gardening do-it-yourself ideas. Maybe you want to install a wall fountain, treat those Mole critters, plant some jasmine vines so they will grow over the winter, or decorate some of your terra cotta pots. Write everything down, make design sketches, take pictures, use magazine article tear sheets, sketch gardening ideas, scan photos and sheets into your computer for future reference. Build DIY gardening project file folders with information you can cull later.

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Go outside, walk around house, garden, and lawn with your "Honey," identifying any new projects or modify old ideas for projects. Discuss which projects are most important and have the greatest benefit for your spring gardening efforts. Make a general bulleted list that refers back to notes and pictures in files. Include costs in your discussions and notes. Jot down what materials will be needed for each project and check to see what you have on hand in garden shed or workshop. Update your numbers after Honey gets through checking them with a calculator and correcting your errors! Her numbers and ideas, of course, are perfectly ok so don't worry about checking them! Be sure and have her sign her notes though, for future reference!

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Prioritize and sketch ideas of DIY gardening projects that are most important. Use A, B, C system. Most important projects are noted as A, second most important, B, least important C. Stop right there, any D projects are not worth the time. Consider time and labor and costs in your prioritization process.. Ask questions, will the project make my spring garden or landscaping efforts easier? Will it be worth the money spent on it and does it need special tools to complete? How long will it require to complete, and can it be finished over the winter? Be realistic and consider if it adds to the value of your home, enhances your lifestyle, or fits with your gardening philosophy, like a Green project, if that is your desire. Once you and Honey agree on project priorities, make a master list with tiles and note where files are, get a desktop file holder and start on your gardening do-it-yourself projects! Good Gardening!

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