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Welcome to our acre, where we look to grow closer to each other, God and our patch of land in the world. We welcome your advice and encouragement as we walk along this road together. ~Karin De La Rosa

Monday, December 19, 2011

Dear Santa, the Farmer's touch

I remember back to my days as a child when the store gift catalogs would come out.  I would spend hours making my lists and checking them twice or twenty times, who was counting?  Did I want one toy horse or two, was there room for dolls and clothes and the new dollhouse? was I asking for too much?  did Santa have room for more in his sleigh?  I would deer tag pages, cut out pictures and have lists with some things scratched out and others added in until finally...just the right list emerged and was mailed to the guy in the red suit.

Fast forward 30 years (ok, that is scary to say, but sadly true) and this past month has found me pouring over catalogs, cutting out pictures and making a scrapbook only of a different sort...seeds.  Whatever will be in the garden this coming spring?  What do I want to grow vs what can I get from the local farmers market?  What is fun and exciting vs. every day?

This past summer taught me that I can not have a full time job and a full time garden and expect to have any semblance of a life.  So Garden 2012 is currently designed to be scaled back, way back.  Of course that was before the glossy catalogs started arriving promising of flavors and combinations that were must haves.  But alas after much thought and deliberation I have narrowed the selection down quite well if I may say so myself. 

Now to be perfectly honest, I saved a good amount of seed from my harvesting this year to try my hand at seed saving, but of course many of those are not the varieties I'm considering for 2012.  That would be too easy.  I want to try the tomato that looks like a plum and the one that looks like a peach and has fuzzy skin.  I want Chocolate Peppers - hello, it is in the name!  Who wouldn't want CHOCOLATE peppers???  and the rumors I've heard regarding Long Island Cheese pumpkins, well I just have to try to grow them so my pies can taste that good!!  and a cucumber that looks like a lemon?  Say it isn't so!!  That will really confuse my guests when I make refreshing cucumber water in the summer!

So as Christmas rolls around again this year my Letter to Santa looks something like this.


Dear Santa,

How are you doing? I’ve been very good this year. I hope you and the reindeer have been eating well this last year. And while we are on the topic of food I thought I might ask for a few items to be placed under the tree. If it is easier for you HighMowing Organics and Johnny Seed carry my whole list, so you might just want to go straight to the source.

1 pkt Indigo Rose Tomato Seed

1 pkt Waspsinicon Peach Tomato Seed

1 pkt Long Island Cheese Pumpkin Seed

1 pkt Lemon Cucumber

1 pkt Dinosaur Kale

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Not to be picky, but I do prefer Organic Seed, I'd rather not have my pesticides grown in my vegetables and it is not good for you or the reindeer either!

And one last thing if you could...a real horse this year?

Thanks Santa!

Yours Truly,

KDLR

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