Minnesota January Garden Guide 2025

Welcome to 2025!

In Minnesota the ground is covered in snow and temperatures rarely go above freezing. Outdoor yard and garden chores are limited to shoveling snow, taking care of the chickens, and maintaining the backyard pond for hockey. Don’t let the short gray days stop you from enjoying nature and participating in your favorite hobby. Here is a list of ways I stay connected to my garden and nature during the month of January.

• Browse seed catalogs and order your favorite vegetables and flowers
• Draw out summer garden plans for plant placement
• Make lists of early spring to-dos
• Bird watch and feed the wildlife
• Visit a greenhouse or nursery
• Start a 2025 garden journal
• Read a garden book or magazine
• Cook a meal with fresh herbs
• Start some kitchen sprouts or microgreens
• Take a nature walk in the woods
• Photograph the winter landscape
• Evaluate your space for new garden plots
• Buy a new houseplant
• Check indoor plants for pests, drainage issues, monitor moisture, and adjust plant placement if necessary.
• Take a horticulture course
• Collect milk jugs and start winter mini greenhouses
• Make a winter foraged deck planter
• Shop at a Farmer’s Market
• Gaze at the January full moon: The Wolf Moon on January 13th
• Look through your garden photos from previous seasons
• Keep a vase full of fresh flowers in the house

Take this month to enjoy the beauty of our snow-covered winter landscape. Aim to spend at least 30 minutes outdoors each day (weather permitting) and embrace the stillness of nature while she rests for another 6-8 weeks. Use this month to prepare for the next upcoming season and set goals for improvement. Consider adding a bee lawn, natives, or a new pollinator garden into your existing landscape. Only 64 days until spring!

January Calendar

Make the most of January and celebrate with some fun themed holidays. Winter lovers will want to add the Saint Paul Winter Carnival to their calendars also, which takes place January 23-February 1, 2025

Signs: Capricorn & Aquarius

Birthstone: Garnet

Flower: Carnation

January– National Hot Tea Month

1- Happy New Year and National Bloody Mary Day

2- National Buffet Day

3- Alaska becomes the 49th State in 1959

4- National Spaghetti Day

5- National Bird Day

6- Epiphany/Take Down Christmas Tree Day

7- The First Seed Business Opens in the United States

8- National Bubble Bath Day

9- National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day

10- National Houseplant Day

11- National Milk Day

12- National Hot Tea Day

13- January Full Wolf Moon

14- National Organize Your Home Day

15- National Bagel Day

16- National Day of Nothing

17- Customer Service Day

18- National Forrest Day

19- National Popcorn Day

20- MLK Day & Inauguration Day

21- Squirrel Appreciation Day

22- National Hot Sauce Day

23- National Pie Day

24- National Peanut Butter Day

25- National Seed Swap Day

26- National Spouse’s Day

27- Holocaust Remembrance Day

28- National Blueberry Pancake Day

29- Chinese/Lunar New Year

30- National Croissant Day

31- National Hot Chocolate Day

Fog in January brings a wet spring ~ Folklore