Welcome to the 2025 Garden Planning Guide

We hope you and your family enjoyed the Winter months, and you’re ready to take on the 2025 gardening season. Whether you have lofty goals of expanding your gardens, or if you’re just hoping to maintain your existing gardens, we’ve got some great tips for your 2025 garden planning. We want to know what your 2025 garden goals are! Be sure to leave us a comment and let us know what you’re hoping to accomplish this growing season!

Looking for a guide to planning your garden layout? Check out our other planning article here!

Selecting The Right Plants

One of the top concerns for everyone doing garden planning is what plants should I focus on? There’s so much information on the internet about climate zones and what plants to grow in your garden, so we won’t bore you with those details. Just know that some crops will perform better depending on what region of North America you live in. We’re going to provide a few recommendations of crops that grow well throughout the North American climate zones, and are great choices for both beginner and expert gardeners alike! Of course, take your own taste into consideration when selecting both vegetables and flowers, but here are some great options for gardeners all across the continent.

2025 Garden Vegetables

• Tomatoes (cherry and determinate varieties)
• Lettuce
• Radishes
• Green beans
• Zucchini
• Kale
• Spinach
• Carrots
• Bell peppers
• Cucumbers

2025 Garden Flowers

• Marigolds
• Sunflowers
• Zinnias
• Black-eyed Susans
• Cosmos
• Nasturtiums
• Pansies
• Petunias
• Calendula
• Morning glories

Soil Preparation is Essential

One of the most crucial parts of your 2025 garden planning is ensuring your garden’s soil is healthy and ready for planting. Luckily for you, BigYellowBag has you covered for all your Black Garden Soil needs!

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If possible, try and get an idea of how your garden soil is looking early on in the year, well ahead of the day you’re planning to plant anything. You want it to be dark in appearance, and the texture should be fairly light and fluffy even after the winter months. If your soil is compacted, light in colour, or stinky, you’re going to want to at least amend your garden with some fresh Black Garden Soil. In some cases, your gardens may require new soil entirely, especially if you’ve been experiencing poor growth in recent years, or if you’ve had any soil-borne insect or disease problems. Early Spring will often bring very wet conditions as well, which can be conducive to mould growth. If you see mould taking hold, it’s a good idea to remove the layer of mouldy soil and replace it with fresh Black Garden Soil.

Keys to Crop Rotation

An often overlooked practice in many home gardeners’ plan is crop rotation. This is more important for crops than flowers, but it can also help maintain soil health in flower beds. When you plant the same kind of plants in the same plot of land year after year, you can make your garden susceptible to pests and diseases. Most common crops can be categorized into four main groups:

• Leaf crops
  • Lettuce
  • Kale
  • Spinach
• Legumes
  • Green beans
  • Peas
• Nightshades
  • Tomatoes
  • Bell peppers
• Root & Fruiting Crops
  • Radishes
  • Carrots
  • Zucchini
  • Cucumbers

Use these categories as a general guideline for crop rotation. Try to never have consecutive years where you have the same category being planted in any given plot. Try and remember what you planted where, and take that into consideration when selecting crops for your 2025 garden. Here’s some specific rotation strategies to keep in mind as well:

• Plant nitrogen-fixing legumes (beans & peas) in the plots that you previously grew resource intensive plants like tomatoes in
• After planting root crops in plots, plant leafy crops to ensure you’re utilizing all your soil’s nutrients effectively
• Alternate deep-rooted and shallow-rooted plants to try and avoid depleting your Black Garden Soil

Consider Adding a Layer of Mulch to Your 2025 Garden

Another consideration for many home gardeners is to add a layer of quality mulch to every garden bed. Mulch is fantastic for gardens, boosting moisture retention, and insulating your plants from both the heat and the cold. If you’re worried about the heat, choose a lighter colour mulch so it doesn’t absorb as much heat, but if you’re trying to keep heat in your garden beds, lean towards the darker shades of mulch. Natural mulch will also slowly break down in your garden beds, adding nutrients to your soil as it decomposes. Your 2025 garden will thank you for taking extra care of your plants with BigYellowBag Mulch.

2025 Gardening Planning Spring Calendar

Time of Year	Gardening Tasks
January	Preorder your 2025 BigYellowBag and start planning!
February	Further garden planning, and tool clean up. Seed selection and indoor seed starting for warmer climates. Pay close attention to germination periods for the plants you select! Try and time it so that your started seeds will be robust enough to be transplanted once conditions allow it.
March	Seed selection and indoor seed starting for cooler climates. Pay close attention to germination periods for the plants you select! Try and time it so that your started seeds will be robust enough to be transplanted once conditions allow it. Garden clean-up and soil preparation in warmer climates.
April	Garden clean-up and soil preparation in cooler climates. Once conditions are ideal, you can start planting in warmer climates.
May	Once conditions are ideal, start planting! May long weekend is generally accepted as the official start to the gardening season in many cooler regions of North America.