When I went out this morning to top off the wood inside the above scene was what greeted me. Ahhh….sweet January in New England. Only exceeded perhaps by felicitous shivering miserable February. A Polish gardener I knew exclaimed that the snow was nature’s free fertilizer; a benefit for the garden from nature. Well, Joe always did try to see the better side of things.
In any case, we are expecting a follow-up punch this weekend. And I have decided on an extreme, and joyous, peregrination through Lala land. A visit to the balmy vistas of green shrubs, orderly rows of veggies, and massive beds of flowers. That’s right, it is seed and plant catalog time.
There are about an even dozen of these beauties on the table, several more just online, and ads in my email every day. So while the rest of you suckers are seeing white all over, I’ll be viewing the beds of herbs, spices, tomatoes, lettuce, and overflowing containers of flowers.
Don’t wake me until spring.
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Winter always seemed to be long, especially after football season was over. I wonder what he meant by natures fertilizer?
He assumed that substances washed from the snow helped fertilize the soil.
When I was a teen, I used to keep a bottle of Coppertone in my dresser drawer. One whiff during the cold of winter and I was transported back to days at the Jersey shore. I hear ya’, Lou!
Talk about a cheap high!
I feel guilty every time I throw one of these into recycling. Sometimes I say, “Lou would love you. Sorry, dude.”
Don’t worry, Martha, I get plenty.
Whew. I threw out another one today. But I AM thinking about my garden, how to clean it out and do something with it. Last year was pretty impossible but i did more than I imagined I could.
Cloth plant bags are easy, cheap, and can be moved.
I use them! They’re great! I grow squash in them because, essentially, they’re like little hills. I have a bunch I haven’t been using — maybe that’s the solution for the front yard where the sun comes blasting in.
I use them for tomatoes; they are easy to fertilize, and if you mulch them, you won’t have to weed them.
I used them for tomatoes, too. The problem here is the growing season is so short — but cherry tomatoes usually make it the whole way. I grew some really pretty purply/red heirloom tomatoes one year — I couldn’t put them out until June and I was covering them in late August but they made it!!! I think I might be too lazy for real gardening 🤣
Look at all those lovely seeds! I find that, in the middle of winter, looking at pictures of summer scenes is quite weird, as if I’m looking at another planet.
That’s a great way to spend time indoors.
And the catalogs were free, too!