Seed Catalog Season Is Almost Here!

Last week I opened my mailbox to a welcome surprise: the first seed catalog of the season! Specifically, the Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog. To anyone bitten by the gardening bug, seed catalogs are like a second Christmas.

Shana's Backyard Garden on December 19, 2013

Seed catalogs start arriving in late December and continue into January. With them they bring all the hopes and promises of the year to come. You start to imagine long summer days, happily digging in the dirt, and all the fresh, homegrown yummies that only a garden can provide.

My husband and I only started seriously gardening a couple of years ago when a neighbor offered us some space in her yard. We've been hooked ever since! Last year, after we learned that I have brain cancer, we moved from the north coast of Oregon to Vancouver, Washington, to be closer to medical care facilities in Portland. We now garden in our back yard in the suburban neighborhood of Salmon Creek.

This is the first full year we'll be gardening in our new home. I hope you join me as I share some of the surprises, defeats, musings, and victories that come from Shana in the garden.