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Burpee’s New Year’s Resolutions for Gardeners

December 31, 2009 by Jeanne

Are you on the email list for the Burpee garden seed company? I am, and this morning they sent the best email of the year. In it, they listed the gardener’s 2010 New Year’s Resolutions. It’s actually a promotion for a set of garden seeds, called the New Year’s Resolution Garden. If you are interested, here is the link (I am not making money off this one, just sharing).

Burpee’s New Year’s Resolution garden seeds.

I thought the list was so great, I made up my own. Here is the list with my own little spin on it.
The Gardener’s 2010 New Year’s Resolutions

  1. Lose weight – grow lettuce and sprout some seeds
  2. Exercise – turn your compost pile and weed the garden!
  3. Save money – grow organic tomatoes at home
  4. Less stress – grow flowers!
  5. Help the environment – grow a butterfly garden
  6. Enjoy more family time – grow sunflowers with your children
  7. Eat better – just grow vegetables. Any vegetables. Then eat them daily.

My own gardening plans for 2010 involve finishing the flower beds near the front of the house. I found seeds for my yellow primrose, the old-fashioned kind my mom grew next to the garage, and I found dozens of butterfly-attracting perennial seeds to grow for that front of the house garden. Other goals include building more bird houses, especially bluebird houses, adding iris to the flower beds, moving butterfly bushes to the edge of the clearing so they don’t overtake my flower garden, and finishing off the garden paths (if I can convince hubby to help.) Oh, and being smarter about my vegetable garden – not growing so many turnips (there are only so many one family can eat), canning beets, growing more things that store well, and enjoying what’s fresh in season when it IS in season.

Happy New Year from my garden to yours!

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  1. Bangchik

    December 31, 2009 at

    Quite a list of resolutions….! ~bangchik

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