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December 29, 2010

And...we're off!!!

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2011 is not yet here, yet the starter gun has been fired for the new gardening season.

The catalogs are arriving.

First in my mail box this week - in a tie - were Seeds of Change, a certified organic seed catalog, and that old stand-by, Burpee, with a luscious "Kings of Color" tomato collection on the cover.

Close behind were Gardener's Supply, with advice on starting a family vegetable garden this year, and Jackson and Perkins, featuring its 2011 Rose of the Year, "Always and Forever" red.

I also received Gardening How-To this week, a gardening magazine which includes a list of the best new plants for 2011 and a list of the biggest gardening mistakes. (No. 1 is, no surprise, overwatering or underwatering plants.)

Keep reading (what else can you do in winter), because I'll have more on all these topics in the days ahead.

Posted by Susan Reimer at 1:22 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Categories: From the catalogs

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My Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog came yesterday! I would need for about 100 of my dearest neighbors to go in with me, in order for it buying seeds to start for my little bitty yard to make sense, but the pictures are just so wonderful!

I agree, Eve. I don't grow my own from seeds for the same reason, but the pictures are a day-dreaming wonder! -- Susan

Posted by: Eve | December 30, 2010 11:04 AM

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About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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