My Pintree Garden Seeds Order has arrived!

28*, feels like 18*, 90% humidity, SW 12 mph wind, cloudy, 1.5" new snow fell over night

Last night when I got home from a pretty rough night at work and a long slippery drive home, there was a package on my doorstep. Now, I was THRILLED to see this package. After all, it was the thing that kept me going last night. "Maybe there will be a package on the doorstep!," I kept telling myself. And Lo and behold, there was! This thrilled me to no end. I brought it in and opened it quickly.
As you can see, I bought a nice assortment of books. Real drool material and the kicker...none of these books cost more then $4! Pinetree's books are always a great deal. I almost feel like I'm cheating them. Almost. All my seeds came except for my wintergreen and hosta hybrids mix which they were out of and the sprouting jar toppers were out too but hopefully they will come within a month because I can't use my sprouting seeds that came with the order without them and I really want to make sprouts!

The plants I ordered will be shipped between April and June (I hope April because I had ordered some potatoes and strawberries along with rhododendrons, raspberries, a grape, and cranberries). They sent me a coupon (as if I need any more encouragement to shop with them) for a couple dollars off my next order.

I bought a big bag of buckwheat to try as a cover crop. I was afraid of trying any of the perennial kinds for fear I may let something wild and hard to control into my garden. I've never used cover crop before and buckwheat sounded relatively harmless considering it can't take any frost and it doesn't take as long as others to do it's thing. Perhaps next year if using buckwheat is a success, then I will get braver and try a more nitrogen fixing green amendment.