Pat, the club's organizer for our booth at the Garden Expo on Saturday, is pulling everything together for the event. She's got lists of haulers and booth-sitters and tasks and schedules and things-that-must-not-be-forgotten.
It's huge job. Next year (if I may be so confident) will be easier – we'll know what worked and didn't work this time, and how long it takes to set up, and what sells well and what doesn't. And Pat will have forgotten all the hard work and worry, and sign up to manage the show again. Right?
I think there are two kinds of gardeners. There is the organized kind who start their tomato seeds at noon on March 9, who chart the crops in their garden beds every year and keep meticulous records of variety/date transplanted/yield. And then there are the ones that putter in the garden, start peppers when they take a notion, mulch when they get around to it, eat all the cherry tomatoes right off the plant (what variety was that? mmmmm) without counting or weighing them first… Well, there's a third kind too, who want to be the first kind but tend toward being the second kind, and go out to plant x and weed y and then fall into a timeless rapture in the sun and dirt… x and y remain unplanted and unweeded but now there's a wee allée and pond for Hubert, the garden toad, which is awesome, except it's getting too late to start the dang peppers… Type 3s would be happier if they could just let go. But then they'd never get any peppers.
Well, Pat has to bring together all three kinds of gardeners for this event and that must be like herding cats. We're a very loose coalition of people who happen to garden. Good luck, Pat!
Club members, if you aren't staffing the booth or bringing plants, please show your support and bring your gardening family members and friends down to buy some really nice (many heirloom) varieties, chosen to do well in our short growing season.
After all, it's way too late to start your own peppers.
Su
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