A blossom from the native dogwood tree, with a beautiful blossom, is worth considering to establish in your garden. Your favorite garden center may have this tree ready for you to plant in your garden. It can be pruned to grow small or tall.

By Joyce Arleen Corson
Guest Writer

SYRACUSE — In January the daylight eagerly increases. A welcome relief after long days of darkness. The planets on their adventures are bringing more sunlight!

Joyce Arleen Corson

A blossom from the native dogwood tree, with a beautiful blossom, is worth considering to establish in your garden. Your favorite garden center may have this tree ready for you to plant in your garden. It can be pruned to grow small or tall.

If planting seeds the weather must rise to 75 degrees for seeds to germinate, trusting the seed bed is ready. Mother nature, in her own way, takes care of this but frequently she may be followed by a drop in temperature and can erase all that was started. An old fashioned cold frame can handle this with a glass window that you can use for night coverage.

However growing plants under lights indoors is something you might have heard about but haven’t attempted.

Many people believe growing plants under lights is a costly and complicated business but the truth is anyone with even a little gardening know-how can set up lights for growing plants indoors.

It’s as simple as changing your incandescent light bulb in a table lamp and inserting a “grow light” bulb into your lamp to create a miniature garden before your eyes.

Actually light bulbs created to mimic our summer day can give you healthy advantages too, but not a suntan! It’s positive personal growth for you and your plants.

Plant your seeds according to the protocol you use in the garden only with miniature amenities to fit your tabletop garden under your creation of a spring garden.