Share with Your Comminity
Location:Â Fredericksburg Branch, 3rd floor
Bring in your heirloom, non-hybrid seeds to share! Plant them and let some of them grow to maturity. When you harvest the next generation of seeds, return some to the library so other people can check them out. You can borrow up to 10 seed packets at a time.
What to Plant: Late Fall/Early Winter
Gardening tip: Consider cold-hardy plants with short maturation periods -- so mostly, root vegetables!
Carrots are a hardy vegetable that can tolerate the cold.
Cauliflower is best planted in late autumn and early winter so the curds can ripen in the cold.
Loose-leaf and crisp head lettuce varieties can both be grown.
Beets like a sunny spot with good soil drainage.
Broccoli is a cool-weather crop that grows best in the early spring, through the fall and winter months.
Winter Gardening Tasks
You CAN have fun gardening in the winter months. Here's a list of suggestions and tasks you can complete while waiting for the songs of springtime.
- Plan for the spring growing season! Start selecting seeds, plotting out plant locations, and researching new varieties of plants or different gardening techniques.
- Order new seeds and/or bulbs
- Sharpen your gardening tools and/or upgrade your equipment
- Begin an indoor herb garden: herbs like basil, rosemary, thyme, and parsley can thrive indoors where there's at least 6 hours of sunlight.
- Add fallen leaves to gardening beds: the leaves' natural breakdown feeds the soil!
- Prune dormant plants
- Start sowing seeds in late winter
- Focus on indoor houseplant care
- Donate seeds to our Seed Library, of course!
