January is the time for Connecticut gardeners to dream up plans for the spring and summer garden. For gardeners who start indoor seedlings, it's time to order seeds. This can be a daunting task if you read every catalogue that comes in the mail. Most people don't have this amount of time … I know I don't … so my first weeding project of each growing season involves weeding seed catalogues.
My Connecticut gardens are finally covered in snow but this doesn't mean all plant material has stopped growing. In a sunny window an amaryllis has grown from a small shoot to two-feet of blooming potential and, nearby, running a close second in the growing-taller race is a swelling stack of seed catalogues.
February is my least favored month of the year. I have a zillion reasons to be thankful and upbeat … and I never forget any one of them … but this does not prevent my February mood from turning blah … or even, at times, downright surly. In spite of annual efforts to stave off these February blahs, they settle in as surely as the sun sets and tides wane. The month's dangle-a-shiny-object moments like Groundhog Day, the Super Bowl (even if ambivalent about American football, there's usually one or two amusing commercials), Mardi Gras, or Valentine's Day do not alter the fact that I simply don't like this month. The nicest thing I can say about February is it's short.
Happy 2010 to all my gardening friends and fellow bloggers. This being the first day of the month, and a new year to boot, it's time for me to fess up one of the many gardening oops – GOOPs for short – I've made in my three-plus decades of garden dabbling.
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