🌿 JANUARY–––the BEST PART OF THE YEAR 🌿

Chinese Witch Hazel
(Hamamelis japonica arborea)
blooming on Shaw Island
anno twenty January 2018.

Anyone who thinks gardening
begins in the spring and ends in the fall
 is missing the best part of the whole year;
for gardening begins in January 
with the dream!
Josephine Nuese

🌿 WINTER SOWING TRICK for Summer 2018 🌿

Fresh seeds wrapped in handmade packets.
For an early seed sowing trick listed below,
there are some packets of seeds kept dry
inside two large jars at the Gatehouse Seed Shed,
Reefnet Bay Road,
Shaw Island, USDA Zone 8b. Stop by.

Listed here is a great winter-seed-sowing trick for your upcoming summer garden. With some recycled milk or water jugs to act as mini-greenhouses, cozy beds can be made for seeds to germinate and harden off at their leisure, outside! Of course, Shaw Island seeds are healthy, happy, and most agreeable. 
Here's a link here