Charlie Brown used to wait by the mailbox waiting for valentines, and I can sympathize! Every day I wait for the mail worried that if I delay then the seeds will get too cold or two wet or that something might happen to them if they are not instantly whisked inside!
I know, it is silly. The seeds will arrive when they arrive.
I don't usually order seeds. Instead I save seeds from my vegetables, and when I do buy seeds then one packet can last me for a few years. If the germination is poor because my seeds are getting old then I just stop by a nursery and pick up a new packet: every year I have a big vegetable garden but it usually costs me pennies!
I had entirely forgotten the breathless excitement of waiting for a big seed order!
My husband and my son, neither one of who is much of a gardener, want to sell sweet corn at the Farmer's Market. I am heavily involved because I know how to raise the sweet corn and they do not. So, I have ordered two pounds of the earliest corn seeds, and a smaller amount of vegetable seeds of anything else that I think might sell. And, I am all on edge waiting for the delivery!
If we have the first sweet corn then people will come to our booth, and as long as they are there perhaps they would like to buy a squash or a bunch of onions? I am not a great sales person but i have been buying groceries for decades, and it is so EASY for a shopper to choose one vegetable and then say "I would like that too"! So, I intend to have a pile of vegetables next to the pile of sweet corn.
The tiller has been serviced and there is fertilizer in the garage. The only thing left to do is to receive the seeds in the mail, and then wait for warmer weather!
I know, it is silly. The seeds will arrive when they arrive.
I don't usually order seeds. Instead I save seeds from my vegetables, and when I do buy seeds then one packet can last me for a few years. If the germination is poor because my seeds are getting old then I just stop by a nursery and pick up a new packet: every year I have a big vegetable garden but it usually costs me pennies!
I had entirely forgotten the breathless excitement of waiting for a big seed order!
My husband and my son, neither one of who is much of a gardener, want to sell sweet corn at the Farmer's Market. I am heavily involved because I know how to raise the sweet corn and they do not. So, I have ordered two pounds of the earliest corn seeds, and a smaller amount of vegetable seeds of anything else that I think might sell. And, I am all on edge waiting for the delivery!
If we have the first sweet corn then people will come to our booth, and as long as they are there perhaps they would like to buy a squash or a bunch of onions? I am not a great sales person but i have been buying groceries for decades, and it is so EASY for a shopper to choose one vegetable and then say "I would like that too"! So, I intend to have a pile of vegetables next to the pile of sweet corn.
The tiller has been serviced and there is fertilizer in the garage. The only thing left to do is to receive the seeds in the mail, and then wait for warmer weather!
I love receiving packages too, especially when I order something gardening related or clothes