Misc/Chat Catalog crazy

dioptase

Veteran Member
I'm getting besieged by seed and gardening catalogs, and I'm going a little crazy. I want, I Want, I WANT, even it it makes no sense to get things.

I just ordered 3 more tomato cultivars from Tomatofest, because they are on sale as he is discontinuing them. (One of them is 'Gardener's Delight', a cherry tomato that I grew decades in the past, and I know I like it. I also got another Russian tomato (because they do well in our climate here) and a Polish tomato touted as being comparable to 'Brandywine' in flavor. (Not stopping there, I added some marigold and calendula seeds.))

Then I went to Urban Farmer and ordered a few herb seeds, and escaped. *whew*

Baker's Creek got me for 13 packets of seed (and I'd order a lot more, except that I don't know where I'm going to grow these things as it is).

What really is bugging me, though, are the very nice root vegetable storage drawers over at Gardener's Supply. I don't have a root cellar (or a cellar at all), nor a spare cold room to store root veggies in, but I WANT.

I'm almost afraid to look at any more garden catalogs, yet I can't resist... (Dreaming of a larger garden and a root cellar that I will probably never have.)

At least I finally convinced myself (justifiably so) to stop spending money on daylilies (because I like what I have, and the breeders for the most part are ignoring the rust/disease issues).
 

kyrsyan

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I have learned to not order unless I have a home for it. And the home has to be existing. Not something that I will make in the next year, because often life interferes. It has to be existing.
It's not 100% but it does help.
 

Freebirde

Senior Member
"I'm getting besieged by seed and gardening catalogs, and I'm going a little crazy. I want, I Want, I WANT, even it it makes no sense to get things."

Grow while you can, on bad days I can barely hold a catalogue, much less a garden trowel. That does not stop me from wanting though. Or having 27 links in my "growing" folder under favorites. These days I am mostly a keyboard gardener, helping where I can.
 

dioptase

Veteran Member
I'm trying. I have mobility issues and am due for 2 knee replacements, so any gardening right now is a challenge. I feel bad for you, not being able to physically garden (I hope "bad days" does not mean "all" days). But bless you for helping and staying involved.

Despite the knee/mobility issues (I just want to sit, really), I picked up some lettuce and arugula at one of the nurseries (I slacked off on starting my own) and got that planted (however haphazardly) and we had some of the arugula in a salad last night. I had almost forgotten what a blessing it is to be able to go out into the garden and gather whatever (arugula, some green onions) for a meal.

As I told DH (whose idea of an ideal home seems to be a penthouse :rolleyes: ), so long as I'm alive and am able to garden at all, I will - so no penthouses, but real houses with land only. (Though next year, with the knee replacement surgeries, it is definitely going to be even more of a challenge than it is right now.)
 

Freebirde

Senior Member
Tall, raised beds and containers make it easier for mobility impaired gardening. There are a lot of you tube videos on construction of these.

I had my left hip replaced this past summer and wished I hadn't. No improvement of mobility and a higher risk of infection. I just have to face that this 'earth suit' is pretty well worn out and that I have to deal with it until I can trade it in on an improved model.
 

dioptase

Veteran Member
My kitchen garden, at least, is already in tall raised beds. Unfortunately, one still has to gimp around the garden, and lifting bags of compost and mulch and the like with wrecked knees is unpleasant at the least (more pressure on the knees = more pain).

I'm sorry that your hip replacement hasn't worked out. Per the surgeon, I'm already at a higher risk of infection than most patients, so there are concerns there. We'll be "rolling the dice", as it were. But if we don't get this done soon (the plan is maybe February next year, for various reasons), there's a point of "too late" to get good results.
 

Freebirde

Senior Member
It makes for a little more work, but easier work if you use smaller buckets or the cheap plastic pitchers to move the compost and such from the bag to the beds.

Yes, I am lazy.
 

dioptase

Veteran Member
I am now divvying the fertilizer up into smaller bags, and if I have to move something larger (generally a bag of mulch/compost/planting mix) myself, I bought one of those wheeled "plant stand" things to help move it along, provided the distance is not too far. Longer distances, or lifting one of the big mulch/compost/planting mix bags UP (to put it into a raised bed), then I draft DH (or my garden helper) to do that. I try to do as much as I can, but yes, I've had to relinquish more and more chores (such as digging up the kitchen garden beds each spring, because they need to have redwood roots removed, and that has just gotten to be too much for me).
 
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