More Seeds

The seeds I ordered from Victory Seed Company finally arrived yesterday.  All in all I was fairly satisfied with the experience, they have a great selection of heirloom vegetables and the packaging is nice with the seeds being packaged in a small baggie inside the normal paper pouch.  Shipping took quite a while, however.  It took nearly two weeks for the envelope of seeds to get to my mailbox from the time I put the order in on the website.  Mostly I think thats an indication of how spoiled I've become by companies like Amazon that are ready to ship any item at any time.

The garden challenges this just-in-time expectation though.  I still find myself checking on the seedings that I have planted every few hours to see if something new has happened to them, much like I spasticly click on my inbox or refresh a shipping status to see if anything has happened that I simply must know about at this exact moment.  Plants, however, don't care about my impatience.  They are going to germinate and sprout in their own good time and there isn't much I can do to hurry things along.  Constantly asking the plant "Are you ready yet?" seems fairly counterproductive.  Poking at the seedling to see if it's grown its first real leaves, digging at an onion to see if its bulb is big enough to eat are not going to make things go faster, but they might just make things fail all together.  The best approach seems to be to know the plant.  This doesn't necessarily mean to know the parameters of  growth with charts, my broccoli seeds were supposed to take 10-15 days to germinate according to the package but took less than a week.  What you have to do is understand what the plant is saying to you in its special plant language of color and size, and the only way to listen seems to be patience.