This is the second year for our club booth at the Garden Expo, and I'm working on getting my contribution ready. It's a fun event – I especially like to browse the big outdoor sculptures. Man, I would love to have a 10-foot-tall welded T-Rex or one of those cool kinetic spinning things in my garden.
But our club doesn't offer big weird sculptures. We sell plants, mostly. Healthy tomatoes and peppers and such, varieties that do well in our short-season gardens. We've started them and nursed them along from seeds, or made divisions of plants that are flourishing in our own yards. And our diverse group of gardeners researches and orders all kinds of interesting varieties, so shoppers can find more than just the same three kinds of tomatoes that the big box stores carry.
I went to see plant-starting star (and former club president) Barbara, and she showed me her method of potting up plants for sale. She uses these Solo 20-ounce drink cups, melts drain holes with a wood-burning tool, and labels them with white duct tape. They fit 12 to a dollar-store bin.
I think the end result is quite spiffy, as well as efficient. So now I'm going back out to pot up the Opalkas. And maybe some thyme and borage from the flowerbed.
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