Seed catalogs!!!

This time of the year not a whole lot happens in the greenhouses except dreaming for warm weather again! Its a little depressing to see 4 empty greenhouses covered in a blanket of snow and ice. I miss the colors and scents of all of the vivid flowers and the constant commotion that a greenhouse business brings. This time of the year about all we can do is make plans for the layout of of the plants on the benches and go over inventory lists and go thru the piles and piles of see and plug catalogs that come in this time of year. Its lots of fun to go thru all of the books and see all of the colors and plant options. It can almost be overwhelming at first when all of these catalogs start coming as they are just so many!! We look thru all of them and then sort them out by price, quality and selection and start weeding them out from there. Normally we buy plugs for all of our flowers and only plant seeds for vegetable plants, but this year we are going to be planting more from seed. It will be more work but the cost will save us alot in the long run. With the economy the way it is this year we, like all growers are having to re-review all aspects of our business. So this will be another learning year.