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| farmmommy |
Posted - Dec 15 2009 : 1:21:32 PM
Oh, I just can't wait! I love the anticipation that comes with this time of year! You may think that I am referring to the "Holiday" Season, but I am not..though I do love the Holidays! I am actually talking about the seed catalog season! Shortly after the hustle and bustle of Christmas passes, the mail men and women of our country have to deal with the seed and nursery catalog season. All of those colorful, glossy, beautiful catalogs overflowing with pictures of the most wonderful, most manificent, most delicious things on earth. Tomato seeds just like the ones my Big Pa used to grow, Sunflower seeds just like the ones that used to line the county roads back home, brand new colors of irises, new roses that are resistant to black spot and powdery mildew, a "new" heirloom flower seed that I have never heard of.......Oh, how I just can't wait! I sit here, hoping that Baker creek will have found, oh, atleast 200 "new" heirloom varieties that I have never seen or grown!!! This is the time of year I find myself daydreaming while washing dishes at the kitchen sink....daydreaming about the glorious little packets full of adorable little seeds that bring so much to our home, yard, garden, table and body. As far as I'm concerned, these little packets might as well contain gold!! I daydream while feeding the chickens...letting my mind wonder to a new "all you can eat buffet" flowerbed...a flowerbed planted just for my chickens, full of yummy greens and grasses for them and maybe this year some trawberry plants (they sure love strawberries!). To me....it's almost better than Christmas!
An when those catalogs start arriving........well, don't expect to see me in the kitchen praparing large 5 course meals for my family. You won't find me in the laundry room, or in the bedrooms with the vacuum in my hand. You won't even be able to find me in the bathroom scrubbing my toilets. Nope.....Head to the living room. That is where I will be. In the burgundy recliner that my husband owned when we got together...the one I tried on several occasions to put in a garage sale because I thought it was ugly. But I never could convince my husband to sell it, he said though it was ugly, that it was comfortable, and in his book, comfort trumps looks. The same recliner that I now will not allow to leave our home, because I have slept in it, nursed in it, cried in it, practically LIVED in that rocking recliner during our two precious childrens infancies! Yep!!! That is where I will be......with my seed and plant catalogs. A lap full of heaven! Armed with a Sharpie and a calculator. A strong cup of coffee on the side table, with a touch of Creme brulee creamer in it, and a little dish of Dove chocolates right next to it, the TV playing the bluegrass station, and a bib tied around my neck to catch the dribbling strings of drool flowing from my mouth! Seed catalog season....the season my husband doesn't understand or like. Why??...you ask? Well, because the house will have gone to you-know-what-in-a-hand-basket....laundry hampers overflowing, dishes stacked in the sink, and our 3 and 4 year olds toys strung from one end of the house to the other. That time of year when evening dinner conversation consists of nothing but me rambling on and on about this heirloom tomato and that heirloom tomato. Me running my mouth 90 miles an hour about how I have condensed and condensed my wish list to a scant 148 seed varieties! That time of year when I hound and hound my dear sweet husband for his opinion on how many tomato or squash varieties we "need"!!!! And each one of us knows that really and trully, his opinion doesn't mean anything....because when it comes down to the heart of the matter....you NEVER can have TOO many varieties of tomatoes...it's BY-Golly impossible...lol!!! Then there is the flower issue.....I maintain the same opinion....I mean, seriously, when it comes to flowers, once again, there is no such thing as TOO many!!!
So.....seed drool-a-logs.....they are what get me through the winter months without succombing to seasonal affective disorder!! They are what get me through the stress of the holidays...I can open the pages of a seed catalog and be lost in daydreams and thoughts for hours, for I know that once these little bits of heaven start arriving via the garden gods aka the U.S. postal service, growing season is that much closer! And I just can't wait!!!!
Yep!!! Seed catalogs are my GUILTY PLEASURE!!
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| IdahoShamrock |
Posted - Jan 21 2011 : 10:07:05 AM
Hahahaha Kelley! You had me laughing. I can be in my garden all day and finally at about 7:45pm my daughter will come out and say, "Um, Mom? What's for dinner?" And I have to think a minute and realize what time it is and say, "Wow, I don't know. Oatmeal?"
I too love Baker Seeds. I somehow got duplicate catalogs this year and have both of sitting right here in front of me. Watching snow fall now and dreaming of gardening...
Farmgirl #2125
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| canvascabinliving |
Posted - Jan 12 2011 : 12:18:18 PM
Thanks Kelley I now know that I am not alone in being way excited about the arrival of those wonderful catalogs. Also thank you for the name of another place to look ie. Baker Creek. This will be my first year living on our property during planting/growing season and I couldnt be more excited. I now have good fertile dirt to grow and and have to keep reminding myself and husband to start "small" lol. By small we are talking 900 sq ft approximately.
I too love to sit and read through the catalogs and plot and scheme and then look at my paper and go ooh might need to cut back a little. Where we live planting doesn't start outdoors until middle of June if not later but wow how exciting. This year there will be a greenhouse to get things going a little earlier yeah.
Thank you again for a wonderful chat topic it was wonderful to read everyones comments and see that there our many many others who get as ridicuously excited as me about those infamous catalogs.
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| Alee |
Posted - Oct 30 2010 : 11:58:35 AM
Kelley- You sure have the fire! I am still trying to get my garden put to bed this year!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| Cindy Lou |
Posted - Oct 30 2010 : 08:31:57 AM
We've been so busy with harvest that we haven't yet had time to sit down and analyze what went well and what didn't this past year. Our garden and orchard have mushroomed over the last few years and its a bit overwhelming at times. We will also be getting the seed catalogs but as of now we want to just fine tune what we are doing.DH says "Nothing new this next year!" but those seed catalogs and web sites have a real Siren call! We just discovered Bakers Creek this last fall and that will be true temptation! I We've learned a lot but with a lot of trees needing pruning and grapes and blackberries put up on wires, flower beds to be cleaned up and cared for more carefully.
I agree with you, Kelley and Annika, about the delight with the first snow fall. I love the four seasons (good thing since we live in Minnesota) each in its time.
Susan
I'm looking forward to the change to winter and the shift in activities
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| Annika |
Posted - Oct 30 2010 : 07:05:02 AM
Kelley, you've got me all fired up for gardening now! Don't you just love Baker Creek!!!!! They have the most scrumptious and delectable catalogue around! Yum! I'll drool in anticipation right along with you! Happy garden dreams to keep us sane through the dreary parts of winter =)
Nini I'm like you on both counts...I love seed catalogues! and can't wait for this coming year's to arrive and I, too, will make fantastic lists of seeds and have to narrow it down to a modest size when reality hits!
I also love the first snow and await it always with a child's eagerness, even knowing that my sweetie hates the white stuff, doesn't stop me from first running from window to window to get a best first glimpse of the stuff and finally dashing out doors to stand in it...face turned up to feel its cold kisses and welcoming it. Even though I'll be helping to keep the driveway clear and wallowing through feet of it when the drifts get too deep and not enjoying it when it melts...I love the first snow too and always, always wish for a white Christmas!!!!
Annika
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| Ninibini |
Posted - Oct 30 2010 : 06:43:25 AM
Oh, Kelley! I love your enthusiasm - you made me giggle! Like you, with the arrival of the New Year and the temptation of spring seed catalogs, I'll begin making lists of seeds I would like to try (always too many) and diagramming plots for our modest spring garden, all the while dreaming of warm, sunshiney weather, the smell of freshly tilled earth and the birth of green seedlings. Alas, while you excitedly anticipate colorful catalogs ablaze with glimpses of spring's eternal hope, I am comforted by the prospect of tucking in our garden beds for a long winter of blessed slumber... My guilty pleasure this time of year is awaiting new fallen snow to take shape over the landscape, creating a dreamy winter wonderland to frame our holiday celebrations! May your dreams of spring, however, keep the sunshine in your heart burning bright! I'll be celebrating with you in January, for sure! :) - Nini
God gave us two hands... one to help ourselves, and one to help others!
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| farmmommy |
Posted - Oct 30 2010 : 04:41:48 AM
halloween weekend marks the countdown to seed catalog season....lol...im so excited!
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