I got my first seed catalog of the year in the mail last week.
I've thumbed through it half a dozen times already, and am sitting on my hands so that I don't buy the whole thing. I mean really, do I NEED seven varieties of cherry tomatoes?! Kind of. At least, I'd really, really like to try growing them.
I found flowers and fruits and veggies that look like they would make my yard into my own homestead. Of course, I would need an industrial strength tiller, or farmhands to have enough turned soil to grow everything I'd like to sow.
As of now, the ground (and air) temperatures forbid me from doing anything in the yard other than adding to the compost heap.
In the meantime, I should inventory my current seed collection and make the lists of what will actually fit in the garden plot I have. I tend towards seed hoarding, or at the very least over-exuberance. For a while, all I had were packets and packets of arugula. No one needs that much. It reseeds in a matter of weeks!
This year, I'm hoping to have more luck with zucchini and heirloom winter squash. I'd love to expand my tomatoes, and more than anything, I'd like to keep the weeds at bay. I think that will take more than a good catalog order. That will take discipline.
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