Winter, even the very mild San Diego winter, is traditionally a time for all good gardeners to dream about what they're going to plant in the Spring. The Christmas catalogue avalanche has now been succeeded by a tidal wave of gardening catalogues, each with its own set of temptations.
One thing we've been trying to do the last couple of years is to grow more of the food we eat. We can't become complete locavores because Cindy is not prepared to go without coffee in the morning and I won't give up chocolate. Ever. Period.
But we can grow a lot of the vegetables we eat. We've already been doing that, but with the two new raised beds coming into full production this year, we should be able to do even better.
Right now we're eating the beets (Detroit Reds) that are still coming out of the garden, as well as some of the endless Clarimore zucchini and tomatoes from the summer garden.
Ancestry.com quotes Mark Twain as saying, "Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." But next week we'll still be poring over seed catalogues and Cindy will be double-digging the new raised beds.
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