I'm ready for a break, and the greenhouse retail season hasn't even started.  While you've been shoveling, (and shoveling, and shoveling...) snow, we've been planting (and planting, and planting...) seedlings.  I'm not complaining.  It's really exciting to put a seed in a bit of soil, keep it warm, watch it's tiny head pop up, baby it along, and then transplant it while the weather outside is freezing and the landscape is stark.

What I really need a break from is not from the plants, but from sitting at the computer.  Yes, that is now part of a greenhouse business.  We want to communicate to you what is going on here and what we have to offer, and much as we would prefer to dig in the dirt, some time must be dedicated to the task of entering information and publishing it on the website.  

That's where I got stuck.  Between the entering and the publishing.  I've been trying for hours.  Over and over.  Following the directions.  I know I'm missing something.  One small step.  One tiny piece of information I've forgotten how to do over this long winter.  As you read this, know that I have worked and sweated and cursed over this and finally begged for help.

I'm not feeling particularly fond of my computer just now, but there are many things I normally find amazing about this cursed box of modern technology and one of them is the amount of plant-  and gardening-related information that can be had at the click of a mouse.

Want to see a picture of a perennial before it is firmly rooted in your garden?  Tags help somewhat, but go to Google 'images'  and you will find pages full of photographs.  Type the name of a plant in Google 'web' , and you will find many sites, some more useful than others, about the plant and it's requirements.  There are interactive sites where you can find personal reactions to a plant's habit and where you can input your own findings. 

Some sites we found particularly useful are Ball Seed, Garden Web, Chain of Life Network, and New England Wildflower Society.  And to find out if you should plant yet, go to AccuWeather.com.

You can even learn how to prune your trees and shrubs.  Just type it in, and the information is yours.  Amazing.  Almost as amazing as watching a tiny seed develop into a mature plant.