Spring Is Coming!

It’s a spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want to—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
— Mark Twain

I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.
— Millard Kaufman

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
― John Galsworthy

Fall may be my favourite time of year, but I can’t tell you how much I’ve been looking forward to spring. Okay, so maybe it’s early yet, we’re only into it by a week, but I am so done with snow and cold and winter!

And it’s true we’ve had an excess of grey days lately, but the daytime temperatures have been above freezing and Saturday it rained enough to put a big dint in the remaining dirty, gritty snow. Even the mountains of snow in the parking lots have been reduced to molehills.

And sure, the long range forecast is calling for more grey days than sun, and the occasional snow flurry, but that can’t last forever, right? The days are going to get steadily longer, and sooner or later the sun is going to shine for more than a couple of hours at a time.

My thoughts are already turning to what I want to plant in my vegetable garden this year, and what bedding plants I want for the front. I’ll probably go with the impatiens again because they’re so low maintenance. You basically just plant them and then all you have to do is water them and they’ll bloom all summer long.

I used seed tape for my lettuce last year, and had great success with it. This year I got tape for the lettuce again, as well as spinach, carrots, and something else that I can’t remember. If I can find it, I’d like to get one for beets as well. And I’ve also figured out a new configuration for my garden too.

It’s only a matter of time before spring will truly have sprung and the trees will start getting buds on them, the flowers will start pushing up in the gardens, and boom! Everything will be green again. Instead of complaining about the cold and the damp, we’ll be complaining about the heat and humidity.

I can’t wait!