Garden Dreams 2022

Right after Christmas the garden catalogs started to arrive. With the snow on the ground, it was easy to start dreaming of the garden of 2022.

This is the time to reassess what worked and what didn’t last yer. The plants in one of our garden beds closer to the house seemed to have trouble all summer…no matter what we planted. Years ago, that bed held strawberries. The first and second year they were terrific. After that, the soil did not cooperate. We had a year or two of great cucumbers, and then we couldn’t get anything to thrive in that bed. We might have to stick with flowers there.

We’ve decided to stay with the Burpee Company for seeds. It is a Pennsylvania company and hopefully, seeds will be appropriate for our area. Their catalog featured the SuperSauce tomato that we grow each year. It has been great for slicing and cooking.

So many beautiful pictures of vegetables!

Then we focused on the seeds we had decided did well in the past for us. The beans were prolific, the lettuce was yummy and the last of the carrots stayed in the ground until Christmas. We still have some in the refrigerator! We’ll try cucumbers someplace else in the garden and hope they do well.

Yesterday I had a chat with our son-in-law Steve, to see if he could make us another raised planter. It worked so well for the lettuce and radishes. I’d like to add a few other greens, like Swiss Chard, Spinach and Radicchio for salads.

And then he mentioned he was going to try to make a strawberry planter…and I love strawberries…so I ordered some plants too. Hopefully, I can figure out a place to plant them if his planter doesn’t work out!

Dreaming of the future garden is a great way to spend a cold January day! Enjoy!

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