Winter Fun

Gardeners, in winter, pour over seed catalogs. Unless of course they have saved ALL of their seed from previous years and don't need anything new at all . But I can't imagine not trying something new. And since I had such a lousy year least year with mostly nursery stock (not that that was the problem , It was just a really weird year for tomatoes here) I wanted to start with fresh seed.
I love the colors.. all the choices... It is so hard to chose.

There is only so much space , so much energy , so much time. I've ordered my hop rhizomes for the side of the house. This will be a new experiment. If it works, we'll be taking our brewing up a notch. Or we'll just a lot of green vines on the side of the house. Either way is okay I suppose. But I hope they do well.

I've already got more tomato varieties than I have room for. But I'll figure that problem out later. Right now I'm drooling over the idea of Hillbillies, Black Cherries, Jersey-Devils , Cherokee Purples , Italian Heirlooms and whatever else I ordered (there were more... lots more... oh dear. ) . There will be lots of peppers too. And beans. And greens. And I'm counting my eggs before they hatch but this is the fun part. The dreaming. There will be plenty of time for reality to come crashing in later . Gardeners are eternal optimists. There is always next year . And next year.... you will have the perfect garden . Never mind that that has never happened and this is a fallen world with wacky weather , diseases ,bugs and varmints that love to eat garden fresh veggies. Not to mention exhaustion and illness that can strike the gardener... However, hope springs eternal each seed catalog season. ;-)

Oh look, the sock fairy came again. :-) I love the sock fairy. Stripes are so much cooler than solids.