The long nights of January always lead my imagination down a well-worn path to the garden. As I flip and click through the pages of each year’s new lineup of seed catalogs, the images and descriptions of full-grown plants take my mind to an earthy paradise that is waiting in the near future and mine to plan. For unknown reasons, instead of going ahead and placing that important order, I often hesitate, thinking I might remember something else to slip into the cart. Which is silly, of course, because I could always drag myself back online, 24/7/365, and find what I need. The seed companies already have the permission and codes to reach into my wallet and take my money. All I have to do is click “buy.” I never set out to delay my seed order too much, until the Ides of February 2020, no less, of all years, …