There are better ways than paper catalogs for gardeners to shop and prepare for the planting season, says Alaska gardening columnist Jeff Lowenfels.
This is the time of year when gardeners around the country normally order their 2023 seed catalogs. At least that is what many are planning on doing. However, in keeping with the notion that we need to live in a new kind of gardening world or risk having no world in which to garden, I say now it is time to make a 2023 seed catalog, not order them from others. In fact, this effort should become an annual part of every gardener’s winter routine.
Let’s face it, however. In today’s world, mail-order seed catalogs are a waste of paper, the catalog house’s time and are limited in use when compared to what you can do when viewing on a computer or pad. The pictures are more drool-worthy, the cultural information is often supplemented with hyperlinks to get more of it, and there isn’t the unnecessary waste of physical resources, including envelopes and stamps.
The idea is to approach viewing online material from two different directions. The first is the traditional method . You merely enter the names of your favorite catalogs into your search engine and call up them up. My standards for Alaska are “Johnny’s Seed,” “Territorial Seeds,” “Renee’s Nursery” and “Baker Creek” .
The other half of this new catalog equation is to collect information by making your own garden column notes. Create a new document in whatever program you use or start a PDF . Then copy things you want to keep from individual web pages and paste them into it in your own document. Copy the web page for the source so you can just open your catalog document and go right to the page again. This is much easier than dog-earring a paper catalog or keeping a paper list.
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