My first concern, is finding just the right blueberry bushes to plant in my hugel bed. So many choices to make. I have contacted a local grower to see what kinds he will be offering this year. I would prefer to buy local when I can.
Then, I've been looking over my seed catalogs, and found a few more on line that I am considering buying from. I found seedsavers and decided I would like to order a few of the rare seeds that they offer. I like the idea of planting things that people generations before thought were good and that it was important to save and share those seeds. I wish I had known my fathers parents. I am sure they saved seed from year to year. Maybe I would be growing some of theirs if they had.
I am also toying with the idea of strawberries also. We love strawberries and they are so expensive in the store, and even when they are in season. Also, they are NEVER as good as when you grow them yourself and you have to take what is in the container, which, if you aren't careful, are moldy or beginning to mold, or they aren't even close to being ripe.
I also found something called "ground cherries" that I'd like to try. Partly because they are originally from Poland. That is my husbands heritage. So maybe we would have gotten seed from his relatives from long ago.
I like the feeling of connection with the past, even it if isn't directly our past.
Happy New Year!
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