It's one of those June "mornings." It's 3:45 a.m. in the Pacific Northwest. The eastern horizon is pink and puffy with promise. Kids refuse to go to bed at 10:30 p.m. because "it's not dark yet!" In the north country, June is no the season for sleeping. It's the season for growing.

Dedicated gardeners have anticipated this insomniac season (the real meaning of "Sleepless in Seattle") since December and January when the seed catalogs started to arrive...along with sky-high winter heating bills. There are the perennial garden catalogs, the start-from-seed catalogs, and the organic-everything catalogs.

The Sweet household is comprised of seed-catalog junkies. Ever notice the pictures in these plant and seed catalogs? They're astounding.

· Enormous red globes by the dozens hang from six-foo…