We can’t plant yet, but we backyard gardeners can always dream. That means seed catalogues and hopes for an early spring.
Every year I buy way too many seeds. I have a fifty-acre garden appetite on a 12 x 40-foot budget. This year will be different. I will buy fewer seeds to accommodate my mini-garden and I’m off to a good start. Instead of buying 10 pounds of onion sets, I bought one bag, enough for about one row of spring onions, which is all I need. I also bought 2 packages of lettuce and that should satisfy my early salad needs.
I did break down and buy a package of spaghetti squash seeds. I have never grown this variety, but I enjoy cooking and eating spaghetti squash, so this will be my 2024 experiment.
Though you can begin planting in early March, I’m going to try to wait and get the early crops in the ground until closer to the end of March – that is if I can stand to wait. Those first warm days in early and mid-April are mighty tempting.
I love to plant things and see them grow. Eating the actual vegetables is a bonus.
Patience, Jim. Patience.