The Catalogs keep coming!

I love the spring catalogs.   They have such rich, colorful pictures of vegetables and flowers!  Of course, they are fully mature, probably 4-5 year old plants!  The way I see it, you better be patient in order to get those type of results in your garden...and lucky.  The last couple of years I've had some nasty critters eating away at my tomatoes.  I hate using pesticides....or fungicides for that matter.  I'd be happier if I could just get huge 'maters without using anything besides a good rich compost on them.

Well, now's the time to be planting those seeds.  So, Ladies, START YOUR SEEDS!  (gentlemen too:)

Spring is coming!

Yes, it is.  I know that it's gonna be a while still, but it is February and then it will be March.  March is spring!  So, to get ready, I've been pouring over my catalogs and looking up fact about plants on the web.  It seems like the perfect time to get ready, also you could start some seeds now if you have plenty of sunny window space.  If you don't have lots of sun, the plants will "draw" toward the light.  They will grow tall and spindly.  Not the best type of growth.  About the only thing getting tall and leggy is good for is tomatoes.  You can dig a trench and plant the whole thing in there except for the top two inches or so and it will develop a great root system.  Just bend the top and firm the soil around it.  At every possible joint along the stem it will develop roots.  That's about the only one that you can do that with.  We always (my Mom and Day) started tiny little plants like Petunias in January.  The seed is so little that you have to transplant it at least twice cause it comes up in clumps. I remember my Mom transplanting the tiny little things holding a leaf with her fingernails.  Ah, those were the days in the greenhouse.  Always warm in there, even in the coldest of winter days.

So, start looking at the seed catalogs now, and take a look at perennials.  Some take two years to bloom, so you might as well get them in the ground now!

Until next time, happy gardening!