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  • From: Melanie <melaniev@optonline.net>
  • To: gardenwriters-on-gardening <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [gwl-g] Fw: If you dig it will they buy?
  • Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:20:23 -0400

Sorry for those of you getting this twice, I was sure I had the write forum before sending :-(
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Melanie
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 7:57 PM
Subject: If you dig it will they buy?

My thanks to the many of you who wrote me with such great suggestions. Several hasty changes will be made this year to our plant sale and next year we will be more prepared. Prices will be raised although still reflect a bargain. Since the workers can't tell the plant material apart I'm going to buy electrical tape and have different color tapes affixed to the pots to show their prices. One family actually volunteered to come over and label and affix prices to all the pots.
 
Thanks to two people from my daylily list I'm no longer using perlite for my potting mix. I've substituted the perlite with wood mulch/chips (very small chips). One concern of mine was if the perlite was biodegradable. I'm much happier using the mulch.
 
Today's subject line "if you dig it will they buy" is a thought that has been going through my head all day. I hardly ever watch TV but can tell you my favorite commercial of all time. It showed a man who had money coming out of his wazoo. His wife rushed him to the emergency room but all the doctor could do was wring his hands and dolefully announce that the man had "money coming out of his wazoo".
 
Well, I have Digitalis coming out of my wazoo. No kidding, I could pot up 300 of these babies and still have more, and I'm talking monster plants! Right behind the digitalis is Lychnis coronaria and pushing third is good old Rudbeckia - the Black eyed Susan kind. I just don't know how many pots of these to make up.
 
Thanks to Betty Mackey's post about shade plants I searched my shady areas for more things. I still have open space in my shade borders and won't give up pieces of too many things yet. Sweet woodruff though is just about to bloom and I thought that might make it sell, same goes for Corydalis.
 
Last year I hadn't finished pulling all the violet seedlings in one bed and wouldn't you know it but somebody asked if they could buy them! I ended up digging 5 pots full for them and they were ecstatic! Meanwhile the gorgeous pots of Thalictrum just sat there and were the last to go. This year I won't even dig them.
 
Rudbeckia "Herbstsonne" must cost more money because of the work involved in digging and dividing that sucker. I think one clump weighs more than I do, I finally had to hack it into pieces in the ground before pulling them up. Unfortunately it has wilted something awful, hope it gets over it by next week.
 
Wonder if the Egyptian onions will sell out first? I don't know how you full time nurseries decide on what to offer.

Melanie Vassallo
 
 
 
 


  • [gwl-g] Fw: If you dig it will they buy?, Melanie, 04/29/2005

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