Continued from last week’s thread about seed catalogs and seeds:
Marcella said, “I have already bought seed so I’m afraid to look through the Bountiful Gardens and Burpee and Burgess and Terroir Seed catalogs. If we have no more room to have plants, do we just buy seed and put the envelopes around the room to look at?”
That’s always the question, isn’t it? LOL!
I know that some seeds should be planted each year in order to have viable seeds after a time. But others will last a while. Not always sure which is which. I’m trying to obtain seeds and/or plants that I’m not readily able to buy locally. Or which I hope will, with proper storage, last a while.
Gardening, I’m finding, is just one experiment after another. If I invested my emotions in it as deeply as I am tempted, it would be so frustrating I might give up!
I will say, though that when I get to see that okra plant produce like Topsy, and that Mammoth Sunflower bow to her king, I get pretty happy, and find it’s all worth it!
Besides that, Santa brought me a new wagon! That ought to keep me going for a while!
Not just any old wagon..A wagon with a dump feature..I'm jealous.
There’s also the number of plants grown to insure genetic viability. So much to remember-I can’t-have to continually look stuff up.
Being a prepper, that is an excellent idea and I hadn't thought of that. In a shtf situation, people would have seed of local growing plants, but not seeds that aren't sold there now.
“Gardening, I’m finding, is just one experiment after another.”
That is exactly what it is. I'm in the middle of experiments since I haven't done this before.
“Santa brought me a new wagon!”
I know you got a fancy one but I read something not long ago about using a child's wagon to put containers in and that would allow one to move plants around easily. I have an old child's wagon and right now it's leaned against a brick wall so rainwater won't get in it. If I put a hole in the bottom of the wagon so water would drain, I could put plants in it so I could move them around. It is just there now not being used for anything.
My relative engineer will come this Monday and stay the week attending a conference. If I tell him to put a hole in that wagon it will get done so I think I'll do that.