So day two has arrived and I wondered what  I could I type up today and then it hit me....SEEDS. It seems that everyday now I get a new seed catalogue. I feel like a child in a candy store when I see these catalogues, I want to search them and find the latest plant that I must have for the garden. I, like any other obsessed gardener have visions of this huge garden with plenty of room, just the right conditions for each plant and more than enough time and energy to care for each and every plant imaginable. I have however learned with past experience that this is an impossibility. There are only so many hours in a day to plan and carry out these deeds. This does not stop me from my fantasies though.
   I have learned with seeds that it requires a great deal more work than it does than going and buying a plant. This of course is obvious, and yet it does not sway me from attempting to grow something that I might be better off buying. First, when you plant seeds you usually get more than one plant. A packet with 500 seeds can result in lets say 400 little plants. These are 400 little plants that unless you are really good, must be separated and repotted individually. Now you realize what the heck was I thinking, why did I plant the whole package? There is no way in the world I need that many of this plant. If I were to give away as many as I could, I would still have way to many for myself. So during this first transplanting reality and delusion kick into together. First, not  all of these plants will survive and second, I can't imagine I am going to have to repot so many of these again. The day does come though that after all that work, you finally have a plant of a size to plant out into the garden. Now my luck has always been no matter how many I plant and keep for myself...the ones I gave away will survive and flourish and the deer will have decided mine is to tastey to pass up or a stray car has to drive over that spot of the garden. It doesn't matter the garden is 500 yards away from the road. I sit with envy looking at my friends garden and long for the plant that I grew from seed and now have none of. By the way,  the plant is always growing in the friends garden who knows nothing of what a great plant it is, that it can't be found at most garden centers or that they are difficult to grow. That plant is growing in their garden with all there ignorance and I don't have one unless the opposite happens and the plant that I plant in my garden takes over everything, killing many nicer plants and I cannot get rid of it. I will take it to all sorts of gardens and their caretakers and not one of them will be able to keep it alive. I will try all I can to eradicate it and it still grows.
   I digress, I mention these things just in passing...the subject was seeds. I will order many seeds this year, hopefully this is the year all will turn out well. I first must sort through the calalouges and decide what seeds I want to order. Then I need to reevaluate and decide what seeds I could possibly grow due to the fact that there is only so much room to start them. I'll still order to many,  and try and cram them into every available spot. This is what gardeners do, well at least some of us.
   Weather: Partly cloudy High 41, Low 21

  Starting this blog for myself as much as for anyone else. I figure that if I force myself to keep track of things here, I can remind myself of what I did and when I did it. This will help me in transplanting, seed starting, etc.. Any comments or suggestions by anyone out there on anything I write here or anything else, would be greatly appreciated also.
   For those that live close to us, you know that we have been clearing trees and the back area in anticipation of the nursery being outback in the spring. It has been a difficult task to say the least but at least it is getting done and we are to a point where we have to stop for the winter. It would be nice if we had a little more nice weather but I feel that we have been lucky so far and can't really expect more.
   It is easier to envision what the nursery will look like now. There is a lot of planting that will need to be done in the spring, mainly grass to maintain what has been bulldozed. The hope is to get that part done and work on putting in a large garden that will be both for enjoyment and enlightenment to our customers and a propagation area. Some mature trees were saved and I will plant more trees in the spring. I am excited as to what I can plant. I look forward to this both for the nursery as a full time job but also to start a new garden to share with others. I foresee a lot of hard work ahead but hopefully with the support from our family, friends, neighbors and the customers of the future and those that supported us in the fall that this will be something great.
   This recording of the temp. is for me High 43 low 24 Date 11/29/2007.