Planning a Summer Vegetable Garden

January is the perfect time to plan your next season's veggie garden. Of course the seed marketers all know this and aim to get their catalogs in your mailbox in early January or late December.

My favorite catalogs this year are from Seeds of Change and Seed Savers Exchange. They both have great images and descriptions, although I think I'm going to avoid ordering from Seeds of Change this year. In the last few years I've noticed a decline in the germination rates of their seeds - and that's compared to older seeds from the same company - and an increase in their shipping rates.