Seeds

2-14-07 SHORT HILLS: We did get snow, about an inch, plus, cold, wind, rain and ice. Even the dogs didn’t want to spend much time outside. It’s a day for cold feet, shivers and sniffles. The cure—Johnny’s Selected Seeds catalog.

The corn pictures and descriptions are exciting, but the tomatoes, too much. They have cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes, strawberry tomatoes. There are red, of course, orange, yellow, greenish and purple tomatoes. Determinate and non-determinate tomatoes, big ones, bigger ones, early and late ripening tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes and even a variety called “Black Prince”. The tomatoes in the supermarket, you know the ones, that feel like rubber balls and taste like putty, as so inferior to field grown and ripened fruit. It’s a pity the season is so short.

There are pumpkins, peppers, herbs, sunflowers, forty-two kinds of sunflowers, bulbs, and annuals. You can feel the sun on your face. For a break from the season try: they will sell you seeds for a planter or for fifty acres.

Just a reminder.