This morning I’m finding it impossible to go back to bed. My husband gets up at 4:00 in the morning, Monday to Thursday. Usually I can just grunt a little when he kisses me good bye and go right back to sleep. The last couple of days there’s been way too much on my mind.
When I get stuck awake like that, I sometimes have a silly little ritual that helps me fall back to sleep: I imagine next year’s garden. I picture all of the plants I want to grow and how I want to arrange my plantings.
This morning I visualized a salad garden outside the kitchen door. This is the location I usually plant tomatoes, but since last year’s tomato overload, I think it’s okay to plant something else there. Besides, I haven’t rotated a new crop into that bed, ever, so it’s probably time.
I would love to step outside the kitchen door and pick a bowl of salad greens. This spot is good because if necessary, I could fashion some sort of rabbit fence by stapling down some chicken wire to the wooden edge of the bed and the fence up top.
A salad garden it is.
I will likely order a lettuce seed blend such as the Seed Savers Lettuce Mixture (Amish Deer Tongue, Australian Yellowleaf, Bronze Arrowhead, Forellenschuss, Lollo Rossa, Pablo, Red Velvet and Reine des Glaces) or Vesey’s Lettuce Collection (Baby Leaf Blend, Sangria, and Parris Island Cos). I’m leaning toward the Seed Savers collection, which is priced at $2.75 American and contains eight varieties, as opposed to the Vesey’s collection, which costs $6.20 for three.
The downfall of my getting-back-to-sleep ritual is that sometimes I get too interested in my plans and wake right up!
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I was kept awake all night imagining my insulated hoop house next year…