How to Survive Seed Catalog Season
Seed-ordering tips from a recovering vegetable farmer
My mailbox is full of glossy, luscious and oh-so-tempting seed catalogs and I’m teetering on the edge.
Just one more cold, gloomy, nasty winter day away from an obsessive all-nighter marking up pages with a highlighter and falling asleep with the annual Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds ‘book’ as a pillow and a Fedco Seeds catalog drool-stuck to my face.
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
Well, Mr. Stevenson screw you. It’s simple to plant seeds. Keeping the plants that grew from those seeds watered, weeded, de-bugged and eventually harvested, canned and stored for the winter? Well, that is the true test of the mettle of any aspiring gardener.
But the seed-sowing part itself? Easy-peasy. Which is just how the dang seed catalogs SUCK YOU IN.
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