In snow, a gardener's thoughts turn to gardening. This book has been filling me full of images of healthy soil and interesting vegetables and I can almost smell the garden soil on a sunny spring day while reading Eliot Coleman's prose. It is time for me to pull out my hoarded seed catalogs, decide what seeds to plant this year and hope I can keep my over-ordering to a minimum ---- fat chance of that happening. *g* Ordering seeds is a balm for a winter-weary soul. The sun was out today and everyone was smiling in Fond du Lac despite the 10 inches or so of snow that fell yesterday. I hope everyone in the SE part of Wisconsin made it through okay and didn't get snow blindness or shovel blisters from the record amount of snow.
I just ordered some bare-root lilacs. It's almost planting season for the high desert. It's supposed to be warming up around here, I'll share pictures of the daffs as soon as they pop up. :D
Posted by: Stacey | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 10:42 PM
Ooohhh, I can't wait!! Can we hurt Stacey, or would that be wrong?
Posted by: Nora | Friday, February 08, 2008 at 06:19 AM
Ah, Eliot Coleman! I used to love watching the gardening show he had with his wife Barbara Damrosch (who also has some awesome gardening books out. The Garden Primer is my favorite). The show was on PBS. Happy seed catalog browsing.
Posted by: Kim | Friday, February 08, 2008 at 11:20 AM
I want snow.
I've got singing weeds getting bigger by the minute in the back garden. /sigh
/runs like hell
Posted by: Cookie | Friday, February 08, 2008 at 01:05 PM