Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Your Neck of the Woods 2015 Part "Deux", 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Forgot to add----see picture....

Here come the Tomatoes and Peppers....and Mints--and some herbs--
and Strawberry plants--and who knows what else. The Bonnie's truck unloading today.
Crazy! TOMATOS????? Peppers? People are buying them too---
double crazy.!!!!!!!


More CRAZY stuff---People have NO clue!

--Today, someone wanted an annuals combo HB. "w/ the blue flowers hanging down"...?
--Someone HAD TO have a Cherokee Purple Tomato plant! Told him--later....
--Someone wanted Miracle Grow to put on her dried up "Encore" Azalea.
told her it MAY re-grow--just give it time. I sold them a bag of Holly Tone.

Lastly---(Love this!)
--A very professionally dressed couple wanted a fig tree--as his father's was all dried up
and he was so upset b/c it was from Italy. The man of the couple was Greek...

This led to a very long discussion and sharing about my neighbor's Fig tree....
and how Olga had it all cut down--and how I rescued all the cut off new stems...
and how I rooted all the cut off tops of these stems---etc...etc....
SHE wanted to know how she could root some part of this dead fig so her father would
be happy to (maybe) have it again. It was a fairly young Fig tree--so it, probably did
not make it through this winter either.

It ended by me telling them about all my rooted Fig cuttings from Olga's new shoots
that grew back from the roots--and how her cousin, Luis, (from Spain) knew how to
cut all these back (I had offered--but Luis "knew better")--and how I gathered up all
the cut off shoots, trimmed them up and stuck them into pots to root and how well
they all rooted and are growing....AND--that I would be happy to bring them 2 of
the ones I have to grow for her father. Spain--Italy---Greece---probably the samd Fig.

HE--in the business suit--wanted to pay me for them. I refused...said I have never sold any cuttings and would be happy just to give them the growing cuttings.
Told them how to care for them....etc...

HE wanted to give me something---so we agreed that i would love to take some of the
Greek cookies he went home to make for Easter. HE will stop by Wednesday on his
way home from work to p/u the potted cuttings and to give me the cookies.
And--I will give him the pots of Figs.

Life is never boring for me at the HD. And--I guarantee you--they will never forget me.

LOVE these chance encounters! Often I feel that I talk too much to all the customers--
but they also learn a lot from me in the process. I am still selling Milorganite--every
chance I get. And, of course, each time I do--it leads to some lengthy discussion WHY?
Then they buy it....

Gita


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