The seed and plant catalogs have been steadily streaming in. I got the Burpee catalog yesterday. It is gorgeous! There are many new selections featured.
It’s getting harder and harder to shop for plants because my garden is getting so full. I’m getting to the point where I have to be choosy. If I really like a plant for some reason, then I can get it, but it’ll have to squeeze in with the others. And the ones that are already in my garden are on notice. If they aren’t wowing me, they go. Because as you know, in the garden, one season you’re in, and the next, you’re out. Auf wiedersehen.
This winter, my attention has been caught by unusual tomato varieties. Burpee offers a cherry tomato that they say has a honey aftertaste. I’m very curious. They also offer a black-colored cherry tomato, and a white one. I want to grow all of them, but the best season for tomatoes here is July, right when I’m in Nebraska. I still may grow them, just so I can scrounge for leftovers in August.
The perennial that’s really catching my eye is a variegated forsythia called “Fiesta”. I haven’t grown a forsythia up till now, because they seem kind of like weeds to me. But this one has wonderful splotchy leaves. My curiosity is piqued…
Here is where all my catalogs and magazines come to rest: beside my bed.
Heh heh… ‘Project Garden’ Couldn’t you plant the cherry tomatoes in pots and just bring them here?
I need those seed catalogs! My preschoolers are starting in on plants after doing some mail stuff. They’d be a perfect tie-in.
Speaking of mail (blatant advertising here), the class has been collecting postcards from around the country. We don’t have any from Maryland. 🙂 If anyone wants to sent us one, I’d be eternally grateful! (SJCDC 20 Main St. Seward, NE 68434.) Commercial ends here.)
er, ‘send’
Aren’t tomatos poisonous? I could have sworn I heard that somewhere.
The person who runs http://www.tomatoesareevil.com/ seems to think so.
Ha!! That is hilarious! I should tell my sister about that site – she hates tomatoes. I, on the other hand, want to marry tomatoes.
By the bed is such a perfect spot for those magazines! There’s nothing more wonderful than perusing favorite flowers to send you into dozy dreamland. Nice!
Wha? No more Bejewled right before bed?
Ha! I just did that last night. I read a seed catalog, then played some Bejeweled on my phone, then went to sleep.
We have a book at home that Noah really enjoys having read to him and looking at: The Gardener by Sarah Stewart and David Smalls.
http://www.amazon.com/Gardener-Sarah-Stewart/dp/031236749X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203520728&sr=8-1
“The Gardener!?!?” That’s Brad’s superhero name! I gotta get that book!
(No fooling – I have to go the library to get that book for school. It sounds perfect!)
Forsythia warning: regardless how beautiful this strain may be – considering your green thumb – once you have a sprig/twig/branch/shoot you will have more of that plant and then more still and…well, the one my gradfather had planted behind our home got as tall as the house itself before we had to PAY someone to remove the entire blesed thing – it was blocking the sun on the entire back side of the house!! Too much of a good thing. I totally get why some call them “weeds”.
–your plant warning alert for the day