Got my first seed catalogue of the year last week. :)
I was mightily surprised that Richters sent me this year's (free!) catalogue, considering they also sent me (free!) catalogues for '01 & '02 yet to date I have never bought so much as a dried rhizome from them. Nevertheless, every time it has come to me in the January mail, I've been extraordinarily pleased to have received it.
There's something fundamentally uplifting about getting a seed catalogue in the dead and dark of winter. I'm on the mailing list for several seed companies, and none of them mail out their catalogues this early; so I suspect Richter's does this quite intentionally.
And quite wisely, too. I spent a very happy evening suggled up on the sofa, post-it-noting pages and tallying the costs of impossibly long lists, gardening in my mind's eye.
The lease on this apartment turns over this July first; I still haven't made up my mind as to whether I'll stay or not and consequently, I'm conflicted (or v.v.). I used to move from address to address just to enjoy a new neighborhood; but the timetable for leases and landlords doesn't mesh well with the timetable for gardening.
I want to order slew of seeds and a passel of plants -- but not if I'm going to have to move them all come summer. And the viability of seeds generally decreases the longer planting is delayed; so I'm reluctant to commit to the possibility of ordering now and planting next year...
Any ideas for wild-rooted nomadic transportable gardens?
Posted by edgar at January 16, 2003 12:05 PM