Planning for Spring

I spent some time yesterday trying to figure out what I'm going to plant in my vegetable garden this spring. Not only did I have free time (snow day!), but I remembered that it's time to start broccoli seeds (indoors), so I figured I needed to buy some soon... I looked at some online retailers, then headed off to my local big-box home improvement stores. Funny thing: I found almost all of the varieties I was looking for in the stores, and the seeds were about half the price in the stores as they were online. To make things even more confusing, the package sizes online and in the store aren't the same, and often aren't comparable. One place had a packet of 30 seeds, while the other was 250mg. Go figure. Even if the cheaper packets are smaller (and the more expensive packets have a lower unit price), I'm only planting a few of each variety, so I don't need to buy in bulk for most things. I save a lot of seeds from one year to the next, so I'm only buying a few new varieties--like four different varieties of basil! I can't wait to get started!