It’s deep winter now - temperatures hovering around zero degrees, skies grey, roads snowpacked and icy, wind harsh and bitter. We’re under almost constant wind chill and blowing/drifting snow warnings. Everything outside is dead, dead, dead. Unsurprisingly, my thoughts have turned to warmer days ahead, and to greenery and signs of life.

A seed catalog came in the mail a couple days ago, and sparked my desire to garden. Naturally, I want to do that right now, but it’s quite impossible, except for perhaps starting the aloe and fern seeds I’d intended to start last summer. Which I think I’ll do, as soon as I rearrange things to put my plants in a nice warm spot in the house.

My houseplants are suffering from lack of light. The best window inthe house is an east facing one, which doesn’t give it much. I’ve got a 4 foot shop light waiting to be strung up, but I am useless as a handywoman (a sad, sorry state) and need to string up some hooks first. I’ve tried screwing in those bloody ceiling hooks before, and let me tell you - it’s not easy. So maybe I can convince someone like my dear old’ dad to do it for me - if I clear a space in the back bedroom to put them. I have a grand spot for them this summer - in the front ‘porch’ area, which was an add-on to this trailer many years ago, and now houses not much, except a bookshelf, unused piano, coatrack, and a dormant woodstove. If the woodstove was going, I’d have a perfect place, but I’ve got no bleeding idea how to use it, and nobody seems overly interested in showing me how, or finding me wood. I have /no/ idea how to find wood.

Is this sounding like I’m completely helpless and dependent? It is to me. I should stop that and figure it out on my own. But then someone (eh - dad, mom, grandma, whoever) would drop by and throw a bleeding fit because I’d done something wrong, or rather, just not the way /they/ would’ve done it.

Anyway, back to the gardening. I’m concerned, because if I move this summer (a possibility if all goes well financially) my gardening will be shot all to hell. If not… well, I’ll have a huuuuge garden plot all to myself, which makes me giddy and happy. No more experimenting with container carrots (last year’s turned out fairly poor… not sure why… not enough moisture, perhaps?)

Anyway. Lots of ideas going on in my head. I’m gonna start plotting now, so I know exactly when to start my seeds this year (eggplant/tomatoes needed to be started earlier than I could last year!). I’m thinking of growing a few onions, maybe some garlic, definitely potatoes if I expect to be around (I’m dying for some big red homegrown taters!) and maybe some luffa! And of course, other things, but those are what’s on my mind right now!

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