Seed Starting 2015

After sketching out this year’s gardens, I’m now fully obsessed with putting these plans in motion and I’ve dog-eared just about every page in every seed catalog I have.

I seriously have to restrain myself from placing an order before I can fully research the best price.

And, I know that I’ll need to have a chaperon with me when I go to Kelly Seed so that I don’t end up spending a small fortune on seeds.

I can’t stop looking at my sketch of the kitchen garden.

I imagine the borage and marigolds working together to keep pests away and I picture the boys running through the footpaths that I plan to put in this year.

It’s possible I’m even more excited to put the plans for the back gardens into motion.

With the yellow and gold marigolds, the tall sunflowers swaying in the breeze and a sprinkling of nasturtium and borage throughout…it’s going to be beautiful.

In order to keep this manic enthusiasm from waning in these last dreary winter months, I’ve put a rolling schedule together for starting seeds in Zone 5.

This is the same format as last year’s schedule with a minor change. Last year’s had specific dates for when to start seeds: “Tomatoes: start 2/25.”

This resulted in stress and crabbiness and was a threat to my sanity, so this year I’m keeping it more general.

I’m positive this list will grow–I wasn’t joking when I said I’d need a chaperone in the seed stores and gardening sections of Big R and Wal-Mart.

I’m equally sure I’ll learn more lessons, make more mistakes and have a whole lot of fun with this year’s garden.

Growing a garden
The mistakes can be daunting
The success, joyous