It’s time to seed your ideas for this year’s garden Published January 7
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Print article As everyone else has already made clear, good riddance to 2020. What a strange year, so full of unexpected things! The big exception was gardening, which kept so many of us sane. Right now, I am hoping our ship rights itself, and we can face an upcoming summer season without having to wear masks and social distance as we plant and weed. To get into the gardening mood, this is the traditional time to check out print and online seed catalogs. This week I discuss the “standards.” These are the catalogs to start with, to spend some time with, as they could be all you need.
Is there anything more cheering on a snowy January day than browsing through seed catalogs or doing a little online dreaming about what you’ll plant when spring finally comes?
In just a few weeks, it will be time to start some slower-germinating seeds indoors. Seeds of other faster-germinating flowers and vegetables should be started indoors in mid-March. And still others do best directly sown right into the soil, usually in May.
Buy your seed from the right source and you’re more likely to have success in turning those tiny and sometimes pricey nuggets into big, beautiful, productive plants.
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These gifts for gardeners can be wrapped and put under the Christmas tree
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Print article I say it every year: I can’t tell you what gift would be right for the gardener in your life. This is despite Garden Writing Rule 14, which requires at least one column suggesting gardening gifts be written during the holiday season. (It is mandatory, or I wouldn’t do it.) Only you really know what would be the right gift for the gardeners in your life. So, I look around and find interesting things, but my interest may not be your friends’. That is why I am not sure anyone took me up on the idea of one of those newfangled, automatic lawn mowers when I suggested them last year. Of course, the $5,000 price tag might have been the real reason, and not that most gardeners actually love mowing the lawn and don’t need or want an automatic system to do the chore.