This scene is one that filled the living room this weekend: Vince, spread out surrounded by catalogs, seed packets, the calendar from last year, in which all planting times and results were painstakingly recorded, and a new calendar for this year. As a thick, claustrophobic fog blankets the valley, mud clings to our boots and the cold seeps into the house, we look forward to spring with every sun break. As soon as those long anticipated seed catalogs started arriving in the mail, they became the chosen reading material for the bathroom, morning coffee break and bedtime reading. Now the planning and ordering has begun. Knowing spring is still a long way off, next month we will start some seeds in our friend's greenhouse so we can plant the starts when the ground is ready. This will be our second spring on this land and we now have the benefit of knowing what worked and what didn't, as well as what we might want to try this year. Celery is the new challenge; boasted to be one of the most difficult crops to raise. Undaunted by the warnings, Vince added it to the list of things to order. I'm sure we'll stay posted with the results.
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