Take time now to relax and read all those horticultural magazines and garden books that were put aside during the busy holiday season. Draw a map of your garden and make copies of it.
Beds stay in the same place year after year, but the crops rotate each year.
To plan this year's garden, take a clean copy of the map and fill it in. Use the back of the plan to record notes. Keep each year's plan in a three ring binder for easy cross-checking of varieties, rotation, etc. Spend a cozy evening in front of the fire going through seed catalogs to decide what you are doing to plant in this year's garden. As you peruse seed catalogs, choose disease-resistant varieties.