Sunday, January 12, 2014

I love the Spring Time

Sadly it's not even close to spring yet.  Winter did give me a nice break today so I could go outside and look at the herb bed I've been building.  Right now it's just walls and a bunch of leaves, grass clippings and other compostable matter, but come spring it will be a rather large bed with 6 different flowering herbs. (Honestly right now it kinda looks like a mess of stuff.)  Still the weather was nice enough for me to add more stuff to it to break down, and allowed me time to realize how much more work I need to do on it.

Being grounded inside to to ice and cold isn't any fun, but I've been passing the time by herb shopping online both for prices and for uses of herbs.  Thanks to my husband's want of bees I've been learning what herbs they love to and what ones will help them. (For example did you know if you don't want your honey to crystallize you can plant sage and the pollen they will collect from that will help keep honey as a liquid.)

Still spending all day shopping and learning isn't helping to keep my urge to grow plants in check and I found myself starting some catnip in a window box planter.  If nothing else I'll have some healthy catnip for teas for myself till spring, and my hope is I can take the plants I start now and repot them as needed, and eventually move them outside to a new home.  Though I got my first 'new plant' seeds in this week, lavender for a bed, which now has me wanting to try to grow a few seeds of that now too.  I say say new because I already have seeds for Echinacea/Purple Cone Flower and a few others from my own plants.  Oh well, I guess I'll just need to find something else to occupy my time as a way to maybe kill my planting bug.

I assume I'm not the only one out there counting down the days till they can get outside and play in the dirt.