Winter Snow

Winter being the longest at Cricket Corner Farm, it's time for rest. Many of the other seasonal chores have been put to bed under a blanket of snow.



The seed catalogs are quite the gayest blizzard afforded during the cheerless month of February. Since about half of every catalog is given to annuals, Is it any wonder that these visionary Edens are a delight of three-foot larkspur, glowing snapdragons, fragrant mignonette..... culinary herbs, Rosemary and Thymes.... and vegetables, so many delicious varieties of tomatoes, squash, peppers & every other perennial flower we've ever wished to grow to perfection?

We can sketch some tentative plans on paper, make out seed lists..and think green! About the middle of February, our growing season begins,with about as many flats of herb seedlings you can imagine..setting, all in rows in the greenhouse. And here... they will remain until early April, when they can safely be moved out of the greenhouse for hardening off.. before their final stages of growth into the garden in late May here in New Hampshire.


The snow is lightly falling,
Sparkling coming down.
The few remaining Autumn leaves
Are falling to the ground.
The wind is howling through the trees,
all the leaves must die.
One by one they've tumbled down,
buried by the snows.
The more the sparkling carries on
the more the wind does blow.
A large white blanket has covered the land.
I picked a snowflake from your wool...
it melted in my hand.