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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

bobf wrote:
> I just finished planting 3 sixpacks of bushbean plants that I bought
> at our best local Nursery, yesterday afternoon.  Also, planted sveral
> yellow, red, and green bell sweet peppers (4 " pots).  I have used up
> most of my garden spaces, already and haven't even got my box of seed
> from gurneys.  I intend to plant quite a few okra, and I will plant
> it all from seed.

I'm sorry..let me make sure I understand this...out where you are, you 
can buy bean plants by the pack???
Here, we can buy cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, tomatoes, peppers, and 
eggplants  by the pack, but not beans or okra.


> To digress, though.  When I went to the nursery , yersterday, things
> seemed strange, out and about.  The city and traffic was busy , as
> usal, but, thwe stores were "dead".

People just paid their credit card bills from the Christmas spending and 
many people are saving up to pay taxes.  Many people are probably 
waiting for their tax refund to come in before they make purchases, too.

> Maybe this is typical for a Friday afternoon ?  I don't know.  But,
> Sears would have been better off to Shut the doors, and most of the
> other stores looked the same.

Our nearest Sears, over in Rome, is the same as you describe, but that 
isn't really a new thing here.  I heard speculation that Sears/KMart was 
hurting and that they would be lucky to make it through 2009.



> I went from Sears to my nursery, a few city blocks away, and it was
> jammed packed.  Now, the vast majority of pweople were buying flowers
> and shrubs and other ornamentals, but more people than normal were
> hanging out in the vegetable section.

The owner of our local feed and seed store said that more folks were 
gardening-said she had to reorder seed already, and they sold out of 
their pack plants in 2 days.


Bev

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EarthNSky Farm NW Georgia