Garden Mode

Our order of seeds arrived in the mail from Seeds ‘n Such this morning. I noticed that the envelopes did not have any pictures on them so I had a rather fun chore of preparing garden seeds for planting this spring.

When it comes time to plant in the garden the words don’t really help me remember which-seeds-are-what. The names don’t always describe the plant. Collage, gluing and scrap-booking fun was in order to remedy this! Realizing the real truth behind the old saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words!”

Last fall I saved what seeds I could, drying them and putting them in plain brown and white little envelopes. See the tomato and spaghetti squash envelopes in this picture. Notice that these saved seeds were also “picture-less”.

Since I still had the catalog that I ordered seeds from, I was able to look through and cut out pictures for almost all of our seeds.

After gluing them onto the envelopes we have a much cooler set of identifiable seeds for this spring’s planting. There is a satisfaction in knowing that I will not be scratching my head as I go through the seed packets in the garden this spring. Was that the big tomato or the small yellow one? Was that the big tall flower that needs to be staked or the ground cover that I need to put in a border? So many things we have to remember. Whew.

Ready to Plant

Gardening is a large part of our lives here in Inland Northwest. Here is a view of the garden after Pete tilled it with the tractor last spring. It was ready to plant the next day. As soon as ski season is over, we are looking forward to working in our garden this summer again.