Why I love January

In Washington, the land of perpetual rain, it seems like we have 2 seasons, the wet season(winter and spring) and the not so wet season(summer and fall). In the dark and wet days of January the highlight of this season is when the seed catalog arrives or is available online. This is the time I dream of bright spring days with the smell of blooming flowers on the breeze and warm summer days when the garden is in full gear producing lots of yummy treats for our table.

Since moving to our current home 2.5 years ago we have not had a garden. This is mainly because our back lawn is full of nothing but crab grass, weeds and lots of clay soil. Our plan is to tear up all the grass and have a load of garden soil delivered. We then plan on building raised beds for the garden. We would also love to have some raspberry vines and blueberry bushes. Hopefully I'll have room left for a rosebush or two. My greatest challege will be keeping the squirrels from digging up all the seeds I plant, I've already lost a few of the black tulip bulbs I planted.... the greedy little squirrels were not happy with the peanuts we left out for them and decided that my tulip bulbs would give them a nice variety in their diet. We can only hope that this is the year I will succeed in all my gardening plans.