Tired of Winter

About this time of year it gets a little slow in the garden and with garden ideas swelling up inside, I have decide to start this garden log. I am an avid gardener, small truck patch grower, and a big pumpkin Lover.

It seems like about this time of year the seed companies must know that all of us gardeners are starting to get the craving for a little bit of the sunshine and some beautiful flowers. So they send all these beautiful catalogs out tempting us with snap dragons, stevia (a wonderful herb for those of you who haven’t grown it yet), and snow peas. When I open the mail box to that first catalog about the beginning of February it’s like Christmas all over again, I grab that catalog up and do my little beginning of the new growing season jig(you true green thumbs out there know what I mean), and away I go ready to start ordering. Though by the 15, I am not quit as excited.


Now is such a wonderful time to start planning your Garden for next year. What I like to do some snowy February night is to sit down by the fire with my seed catalog and a piece of paper and plan out this next years Garden. I like to start out by making a rough outline of my garden, then think back on those warm summer months and remember how last years garden went, I then can decide how much I want of the different kinds of flowers, herbs, and vegetables. After this is done I lay out a blue print of what the next years garden is supposed to look like, making sure that I have a good crop rotation(more latter).

BAD BARGAINS????
I know many of you gardeners out there love a bargain I do to, but one place you don’t want to go cheap is in your seed purchases. I don’t mean you have to go out and buy the ultra expensive kinds, but I am saying to throw last years seeds out, and the on clearance seed from last year at the garden center, no thank you. I would rather let the weeds grow than to start out cheap. Sorry, I know this hurts, throwing last years seed away is like throwing a friend away, I feel your pain, we can get threw this. So start from scrap and buy quality seeds from a reputable company, preferably one that been in business for a while.


Breathlessly Waiting For Spring,
Until Next Garden Craving,
Plantfanatic