I have all the symptoms of a major malady: Looking longingly at the garden and "seeing" the soil, even though it's covered with a layer of snow; ordering massive quantities of seed; and checking for new growth on the apple trees. These are all sure signs of Spring Fever . . . and I've got it bad!
It's a good thing today is a sunny day. I can wander the garden rows and let my imagination jump ahead a month or two when green shoots will actually appear from this snow-covered soil.
But yesterday, during the height of my "illness," I self-medicated by scouring three of my favorite seed catalogs:
http://www.highmowingseeds.com/,
http://www.cooksgarden.com/, and
http://www.abundantlifeseeds.com/.

I sat down with graph paper and colored pencils and plotted out the growing schedule for: Garden: 2010. Nothing cures Spring Fever better than garden planning and a coloring craft combined!
Rhubarb and asparagus were ordered -- twelve rhubarb plants and 100 asparagus crowns, but I'm rethinking the asparagus numbers. I think they are too low. Today, I'm double checking the bed in which they will live to see if I have room for more. You can NEVER have too much asparagus. That's like saying you can have too many tomatoes. It just can't happen.
After asparagus and rhubarb planning, it was time to see what seeds I already bought and chart their space. New for me this year, a blue colored squash. Who knew!
And last but not least, in the evening, it was off to Beekeeping School. They hit the nail on the head with the title of this book.

That's me all right. A beekeeping novice. The husband is actually the beekeeper on the farm, but I went along to class because bees fascinate me. I don't like the taste of honey, but I love the whole process of making it. (The same holds true for maple syrup. Hate the taste, love the idea.) I mean, who wouldn't like the idea of tens of thousands of bees, working together all season long pollinating the garden, just to make honey for their next generation to survive. And we get to eat the excess stores of honey. What a concept!
Our two new colonies of bees arrive in mid-April. (How would you like to be the postal worker that day!) With any luck, and a good growing season, we should have some excess honey for sale by fall. But I can't think about fall today. I have Spring Fever.