The Dirt on Ordering Seeds...
I had this idea in my head that the farming would slow down in the winter...it hasn't! I have spent almost every extra minute of every day, thinking about, reading about, obsessing about soil, fertilizer, heirloom varieties and most importantly what I am going to plant this spring. With all of this sifting around in my head, there is a constant beat in the background, a drum that beats for March. March is seed starting month, and I have more than ever to be thinking about when I think of March. I have ordered almost 200 packets of seeds...yup...200!!! I will plant the majority of them when March finally creeps up on me. The thing that I have found to be overwhelming, and I am hoping that I am not alone, is sorting through all of the seed catalogs. There are pages and pages of varieties; I want to plant them all. I need forty acres, I have already got the mule, so to speak. I have found a few tricks to ordering and I would like to ...