Good golly. I have received at least four seed catalogs in a week. I love mid-winter gardening planning … but not now! Not during Christmas and New Year’s. Must we rush into everything these days?
Sheesh. I have whiplash.
Gardening? I’m not ready to consider peas and carrots and beans. I’m not ready to confront daily crops of weeds. Give me a breather … let me want to think about planting season. Let me go a little stir-crazy with winter shut-in status. We need the annual frozen water fiasco … “The Farmer in the Well … the Farmer in the Well!”
Give me time to curse the freezing cold, frozen troughs and snowdrifts! And we haven’t had a snowdrift since last winter!
I am not ready to look at gardening catalogs.
Are you? Are you really? Here’s a test … take a look at Martha’s garden …
Are you filled with awe? Then you need to gather every seed catalog in sight and start making your wish list.
If, on the other hand, this design … laid out with rigorous geometry to yield maximum results and easy access … fills you with dread and disgust — join the crowd.
I need time to put away Christmas decorations and make a snowman … if we ever get enough snow. I need time to sit by the fire, read a book and slum in flannel shirts and wool socks until my dry, winter skin starts to flake off.
Then … and only then … will I be desperate to start planning my garden and outlining my plan of attack for dandelions and broadleaf.
Now… please pass the moisturizing lotion and let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
…”you need to gather every seed catalog in sight and start making your wish list.”…
That’s exactly what your son & I did today as we were eating lunch! Well, I was eating lunch-he was flinging baked beans all over your Burpee catalog as he pointed out his favorite fruits and veggies with the fork!
“Yuck-tomatoes! Look! Those are Nanny’s pumpkin’s! Yummy strawberries! Hey! What are those???” (it was okra)
I can’t wait for spring!!!!
I’m a firm believer in not wishing your life away- Bloom where you’re planted- and now we are planted in winter. I’m with you, I’ll think about gardening later, I’m in the mood to snuggle up on the couch and watch movies I didn’t have time for , and rewatch old favs. Maybe we’ll have a blizzard!!!
I’m in awe!!! I can’t wait to think about fresh veggies! I’m wishing for time to pick up those seed catalogs and dive in to my list making but for some reason that plan keeps being distrupted! Speaking of which I’m being summoned! Can’t you hear the “WHAAAAAAA!” in the background?
By the way…your wish for snow has come true! Congrats! I’m kind of excited for it too!
Your brother was here today pressuring me wanting to know what I wanted him to plant this summer! I was like “well it’s snowing I really don’t care! ” It is soooo beautiful!