JANUARY PLANTING GUIDE: Top Veggies, Fruit Trees, Flowers & Herbs For Mild Winter Gardens

If you live in a mild winter climate like Zone 9b in the low desert of Arizona, January is the perfect time to plant! In this video, I’ll show you exactly which cool-season veggies, herbs, fruit trees, and even roses you can plant now. I’ll also share tips on how to start a garden, plan your garden, and prepare for spring crops. Don’t let the short winter season catch you off-guard—plant now and enjoy a bountiful harvest before the intense desert heat arrives.

Feel free to leave any questions in the comments, and don’t forget to subscribe for more monthly gardening updates. Together, we’ll make this year your best gardening season yet!

00:00 Introduction
00:23 How to Start a Garden
01:22 Vegetables to plant
02:07 Herbs to plant in January
02:25 Which fruit trees to plant y
03:09 Planting roses
03:42 Flowers to plant in January
04:11 How to plan a garden
05:19 Start these crops indoors
05:24 How & when to make sweet potato slips
05:46 How to pre-sprout ginger & turmeric
06:25 Which vegetable seeds to start indoors
06:37 Which flower seeds to start indoors

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[michaela.]

What a wealth of knowledge. Thank you for all your hard work making this video. I took so many screenshots

[lynncamomile]

Thank you! I’m in Gilbert and sure appreciate you sharing your knowledge - Happy New Year!

[SeymourGreenPlants]

Starting the year off in the organic garden is refreshing! Everybody needs to Seymour Green this year!

[cowboys]

Happy New Year Angela from Buckeye AZ.
Blessings and great harvest to ALL in 2025!

[michellewelch]

Oh yaaay! Im excited for the spring garden season dead ahead. Broccoli and beets and carrots are flourishing in my winter garden. Time to plant up seeds for spring! I wish there were a garden planning guide like yours for Central california, we are weird here.

[spideruOldManJenkins]

You are so helpful and appreciate all your knowledge sharing. These videos are especially helpful living in AZ. Most plants do not do well in our heat and it is nice to get confirmation what plants are best having watched and subscribed to your videos before.

[FatcatandFriends]

Yaaayyy! You literally made a video on garden planning after I requested it!! Wow, my request may not be the reason, but it sure means a lot!!

[DebMadrid-ov]

Hi! I just discovered your channel earlier this year and love it! I garden in Greenlee County, Arizona but travel to the valley often for work. I can sometimes be gone for a week or two at a time so it can be tough when I’m not home to maintain my garden. Any tips for keeping my garden alive and thriving while away for stretches of time is greatly appreciated 😅

[LoriSavingWild]

i love your videos. Thank you. BUt I never know if you are saying to plant things by seed or by starter plants. Thanks.

[AZWings]

This year has been tough in Phoenix. Hot summer led to pest problems. The fall took forever to cool down, so plants that would normally thrive were not doing as well and not setting fruit when they should. On the plus side, the warm winter is prolonging fall season and it looks like frost may not be a problem at all this year. Last year I had frosts in November.

[Sean-oz]

Thank you for always sharing some helpful tips! Greetings from the Philippines.

[PetEnrichment]

Thank you so much for these monthly updates, they're invaluable! Do you have any recommendations for planning for an extra hot summer after the very warm and dry winter we've been having?

[diablomom]

I wish you would do a seed starting video. My Korean mom watches your videos and thinks these videos mean she should plant the SEEDS not the starts you already have growing.

[LBC]

Get the Planting Guide, it’s a game changer!
Thanks Angela, your garden looks amazing 🤩 Winter has been warm in my area this year, just hope everything goes well 😅

[Sisteryoda]

Holidays are done and I’m ready to get gardening 👨‍🌾 🪴 Happy New Year!! 🎊

[suzanneholguin]

Happy New Year, Angela!! I would like to get more fruit trees. Where do you recommend getting them from in the East Valley?? Thanks in advance!

[jasonshelton]

Any tips on how to adapt these plans and dates to a slightly higher desert like Graham County?

[kellieL]

This may be weird but I could really use a gardening supplies organization idea video. Between seed starting supplies, fertilizer, lights, seeds, trowels etc I'm struggling to organize in a functional accessible way

[MadhuriDas-qw]

Happy new year! I live in east Mesa. What powder did you use before planting the roses?

[slporter]

I think I missed the window to plant walla walla onions and spanish onion. Is it too late to start seeds indoors and put out in Feb?