abhege's blog: 2015 -04-25 Market and planting seedlings

Well, it was raining cats and dogs with a little bit of lightning when we left for market around 6:15 a.m. We had the truck packed full. So full I had to hold the carrier with my 15 flower bouquets. I was thinking it didn't look good. And we sat in the truck for about 20 minutes when we got there, as a few more farmers trickled in. Finally it let up enough to set up the tent and tables.

I didn't rush to set up since I figured there wouldn't be much of a crowd. We weren't even sure we were going to unload all of the plants. Eventually we did though. We sold an awful lot of tomato and pepper plants. I think people are thinking it's finally time to plant. Or they're afraid we're going to run out of the kind of plants they want. And I did have to tell a lot of people we were out of the type they wanted.

It didn't take very long for the sun to come out and the people to start pouring in. We were selling plants, not produce though. And I had over 20 bags of lettuce to sell. Oh, and I brought the holey Tatsoi too, just in case, and believe it or not, people didn't care. It all sold but one head. We did have bok choy and a few bags of lettuce left and we donated some to the people who come around from Fayetteville Samaratins. We finally got to bring some lettuce home for us and we enjoyed a big salad tonight for dinner.

A lady came up around 9:30 and asked if she could buy all of my flowers. I told her, sure, I didn't care who I sold them too. I think she thought I would want to spread them around. And when she went to get her money I did have two more people come who wanted to buy flowers and I had to tell them they were all sold. That's a nice problem to have.

I pulled a few parsnips that I had planted last Labor Day weekend. They're pretty crowded so there were only enough big ones to make three bunches but the tops were probably two feet high! Most people knew what they were and they sold quickly. Another vendor who collects seeds and sells them wanted to know if I would collect some seeds for her. I do a seed swap in the fall so I told her about that. I'm not going to make a commitment to her but if I have extra I will share.



I did try to take photos of market but it wasn't a very good day since there were so many vendors that chickened out coming when they heard the weather report so I'll try and get some next week. I did take a picture of our booth though.



2015-04-26 PLANTING SEEDLINGS

Today I debated whether or not to go over to the farm and mulch the tomatoes or to work on getting my seedling ghetto planted. I ended up being able to do a bit of both.

I have so many seedlings and many of them are in dire need of being planted or getting potted up into a bigger pot. I concentrated on the vine seedlings first since they were already winding around themselves and anything nearby. I have three sections of iron fencing that came from Baltimore that David let me have for my flower garden to put the climbers. I had Thunbergia, two varieties, and Asarina, mixed. I should have a red one too but I didn't see it today. I'll find it eventually. I had three clematis Jennifer had taken cuttings of last fall that I wintered over in the GH and were doing really well. I found a spot for them as well. And I even got my new Agastache Heatwave and new Salvia planted!

I have one area that I was trying to concentrate the agastaches to attract the hummers and I had lot a few over the winter so I planted a bunch more to replace them. I also got some Kew Blue Salpiglossia and another annual whose name escapes me now, planted.

Last year we made a hugelkulture bed with a water feature and I have a lot of open space to plant flowers so that can take up a lot of my seedlings. Now, to just find the time. I'm going to try and get a few planted here and there while Grandpa swings Jackson tomorrow.

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