Fountain Valley News - Your Hometown Community Newspaper

Greetings, gardeners! It's December and though there may be snow on the ground, this month and next month are possibly the most important months in the calendar of the garden. December and January are planning months. I plan new beds, draw up maps showing where I intend to plant things, using last year's maps to make sure I'm doing proper crop rotation. I look through all the seed catalogs and decide which new or different things I will try in the coming year. I make up a shopping list for new gardening tools if I need them as well as wood for new beds or gutters to put along the fence to...