- Author: Betty Victor
The new seed catalogs have arrived-just in time. It's almost outside planting time. If you have started your seeds indoors you are way ahead of me.
As I go page by page looking at all the vegetables and flowers, some which are old favorites, but I have also seen so new ones got me wondering how they all look so perfect. (I know they choose the best one and in some cases they use trick photography) so I have been told.)
Doesn't it make you hope that what you plant will look like the ones in the picture, no blemishes, perfect shapes and colors?
We follow the instructions on the packages on planting and caring for what we plant, but some resemble the catalog picture, but others-not so much.
If a problem pops up and I can't get it under control, that's when I go to the UC Master Gardener website for help. (mgsolano.ucanr.edu)
But I have to say last summer we may not have had picture perfect vegetables that we planted, but we did have enough tomatoes to make tomato sauce in several bags to freeze to use during this past winter.
So I will continue to look at these catalogs with the perfect vegetables and flowers. Then when it's time to plant our outside crops, we will care for them and enjoy them perfect or not.
One final thing, the Master Gardeners of Solano county soon will be starting up at the Vacaville Farmers Market, in May on Saturdays' Vallejo's Farmers Market is going on now, also on Saturday's in Fairfield they can be found at Home Depot Garden Shop every other weekend starting in April.
So if you have any gardening questions, please stop by at one of these information tables.