Soon to be Sowing Seeds: Check the Catalog

They usually start arriving just before the new year and are often hidden beneath the end of year bills, credit card offers and unsolicited health care plans.

The annual deluge of seed and plant catalogs is in full swing and for the gardening lovers among us, they present a promise of normalcy.

Despite the sad state of world affairs, spring will come, it’s a promise. The seed catalogs are arriving.

The temperatures will warm and the earth will once again produce a bounty of produce and flowers. The seed catalogs are offering the great things of which gardening dreams are made of.

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