Prescott Garden Keeping - January Edition

🌿 January in the Prescott Garden
Your Monthly Garden Keeping Summary from The Whiskey Porch

​January in Prescott offers a peaceful, productive pause in the garden. While things may seem sleepy outside, it's actually the perfect time to plan, organize, and lay the groundwork for spring growth.
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🌼 Seasonal Highlights

• Plan and prep: Sketch your 2025 garden layout, consider crop rotation, companion planting, and plan seed and bulb orders now. Starts of cool-season seeds like lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, and onions can begin indoors later this month.
• Garden cleanup & maintenance: Continue winter watering on dry intervals, clean & sharpen tools, organize seed-starting supplies, and tend indoor plants. Use this quiet time to prepare beds and prune dormant fruit trees.

📝 Full Checklist is on our Substack.  The Prescott Garden Keeping Journal – January Edition includes:

• 🌱 Plants & Planting
• 💦 Water
• 🦌 Critters
• ✂️ Maintenance
• 📝 Planning & Reflecting

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Coming soon: Bonus content and a private local garden chat just for Substack subscribers!  You won't want to miss the chance to join in on this!

A Quick note about my shift to substack

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I’m moving all of my seasonal content — including these monthly garden checklists and my more personal reflections on design, simple living, and the art of living well — over to Substack.

It’s a quieter, more intentional space where I can share practical tips, stories, and behind-the-scenes moments — all without ads or social media noise.  And, we can foster a more personal conversation there which feels more like sharing from the porch than broadcasting into the algorithm void.

It’s still completely FREE to follow along, and I’d love to welcome you there.

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Looking for more garden & landscape inspiration?

You can find lots more good stuff and inspiration on our Garden Resources page if you'd like to start dreaming about next season!

Cottage Garden Resources

That’s a wrap—thank you so much for reading! 🌟

I’m excited to share that I’ll be posting a new Garden Keeping Checklist each month, so stay tuned for fresh tips and seasonal inspiration. Plus, I’ll be updating them over time to keep them even more helpful!
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Do you have any favorite January garden tasks you do every year? I’d love to hear your ideas—drop them in the comments or send me a note.  Let’s keep the gardening magic going together! 🌿✨

Peace  & Contentment,
~Miriam