Planting in January

It felt really good. Getting my hands in dirt (sorry...soil) again.

After Tina's comment on this blog and Glen Seibert's article on wintersowing, I spent some time over the weekend poking holes in plastic flats with my hot glue gun and dropping seeds into soil. (I was a little short on deli 'chicken domes' so I just used some old seed-starting trays that had been collecting cobwebs in the shed.)

What fun! I planted larkspur and delphinium and snapdragon and some clarkia seeds that had been sitting in my refrigerator for a couple of years. I've never grown clarkia before. In fact, I'm not even sure what the plant looks like, but I'm willing to give it a try. And since I'm not even sure the seeds are still viable, I don't really have anything to lose at this point.

All the flats are sitting outside on my back porch now. And even though I know it will be weeks before there will be any signs of growth, I can't help but feel like a kid on Christmas Eve waiting for Santa to show. Every time I pass the window, I peek out to see if anything has happened yet.

I'll be sure to let you know when it does...