Monday, March 30, 2009

Seed shuffle

By June

What makes mud season bearable for me is starting the earliest seeds. But, even as the snow retreats to the shady stretch along the tree line, I have to govern my impulse to tear open the little packets and get planting. Last year, I started my seedlings in mid-March and babied them through two family trips to New York: They rode in window-box liners in the backseat. What a leggy bunch they were by our late-May, no-more-frost date.

This year, I’m resolved to start later and to buy more seedlings (oh, the variety!) from the local farmers’ market and from Fedco's public sale on May 9 or 10. Until then, I am soothing my sense of urgency with the annual shuffling of the seed packets into their planting line-up. With Fern and Blossom as my trusty helpers, I spent a morning organizing the seeds by when they will get planted. First up, the heirloom tomatoes who will be our only indoor guests this spring. Then, the hardy little seeds that can take the cold, both posies and vegetables: the poppies, the spinach, the peas and sweet peas, the arugula. The Asian greens took up a lot of space in our seed boxes, as they will in the garden beds. We lined up the bounty with their plant stakes – all the way back to the mache seeds destined to over-winter in our covered bed next year.
This is the most control we’ll ever have, tucking the packets into the box with their stakes at the ready. Once the seeds go into the soil, the growing season will begin with all its surprises: flea beetles and groundhogs and (please, not again) maybe even a hailstorm. We’ll cope and marvel and eat whatever comes of it.

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