Just hit the hot weather plant start sale at the high school today. For those of you who missed my pro-vocational education rave and the previous plant sale for cool weather plants, by all means here it is.
First, it was roasting hot in that green house and I am sure the kids wanted to be squirting hoses around but, again, they were on their best behavior scuttling around, showing us where we could find the peppers, basil and tomatoes galore.
Wow! That was some turn out! Impressive, robust starts very reasonably priced.
I have never seen a more healthy crop of basil starts in my life. A buck each!!!! $1.00 for a plant I just spent $3 over the weekend for. Sheesh!
For those that know, Basil is notoriously hard to start from seed unless you have a greenhouse and perfectly stable conditions. Basil is not easily started in the window sill with the dogs, cats, kids, curtains messing up the conditions. I have long stopped trying and routinely buy them in starts each year.
My GGF was feeling all failure-ish because her basil didn't happen this year. I assured her that she is already super-human with the sheep, the garden, the kid, the chickens and the farmstand. And, if her basil starts worked out too I would have saddly had to feel even more inadequate!
No fear! None of hers came out and there was enough beautiful basil starts to make everyone happy today at the sale.
I brainstormed a little with the horticulture teacher. Her and the kids have planted up a huge victory garden and was wondering how to open it up for community events during the summer. I always found it ironic that the best months for the garden the kids were off from school. So, after all their hard work in the spring, they never really gets to be rewarded for it.
Maybe the summer kids YMCA program could come up and do some weeding and be able to harvest some of the veggies to eat? Maybe they could promote it for summer parties and weddings? Maybe they could offer produce for weekly garden help to folks who don't have a garden or live in apartments?
There are so many ways a garden can grow. And, watching those kids take it on just reminds me that it really should be a community activity.
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3 comments:
Bless you. It's been a good day and a hard night. Thanks. I needed this. It is easy to misplace one's accomplishments.
I generally don't have trouble with basil. It's parsley I can't manage to start this year.
Glad to see another apraxia/gardening blog. I don't think there are many of us! ;-)
Hey! No rubbing it in!
someone has be good at growing basil so that I can buy my starts!
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