This week we made seed bombs.

If you’ve never made them before, seed bombs are just little balls of soil, clay, and flower seeds. When you toss them into the garden later, the rain softens them and the seeds sprout right where they land. Kids absolutely love the idea that they can throw something now and flowers will appear later.

It feels a bit like planting tiny secret gardens.

Every year, about six weeks before planting time, I start thinking about the garden again. Here in Grand Junction, spring doesn’t rush in. It arrives slowly, teasing us with warm afternoons before the last frost finally passes sometime around late April or early May. That makes early March the perfect time to sit down with a cup of tea and make a plan.

You’re motivated, but weather, daylight, and energy make big projects unrealistic. The result? Either guilt for “not doing enough” or ill-timed projects that create more work later.

January’s job is not production. It’s stabilization.