This is a time of year I love and hate. I love it because it’s the time to plan the spring garden and buy seeds. I hate it because I have to make tough choices and I almost always buy twice as many seeds as I need and end up with way too many. I probably have more extra packs of seeds in my shed than Burpee has in their Harrisonburg warehouse.
I have a small garden, which is probably a blessing because I’d plant a five-acre garden spot if I had the room, then wouldn’t be able to keep up with it. So I have to make tough choices – like Sophie, only with vegetables, not kids.
What to plant? What to plant?
Help me figure this out.
You gotta’ have spring onions, right? They grow quickly, are great to eat fresh out of the garden with a little Kosher salt and you can replant stuff soon after they are harvested. Same with leaf lettuce, but my lettuce crop last spring was a wipe-out. They didn’t sprout for a while, then got washed away. But I’ll plant them anyway.
Also, I need a few tomato plants. And some cukes, zucchini, yellow squash, beets, okra, green beans, ford hook limas, a watermelon vine, eggplant, green peppers, rutabagas, celery, kale, radishes, carrots, endives, peas, broccoli and potatoes.
See what I mean?
I hate making these choices!