Propagation: Seed Snatchin' Part XIV... Chaffin' the Booty!, 1 by soulgardenlove

soulgardenlove wrote:
Congratulations Nicole! On the plants too!!

Okay, yall are not even going to believe this... As If I wasn't already the queen of dumpster diving... Well, I found another place to pick out trashed plants!! It's amazing!! I stumbled across it when I went there to buy a $10 pick-up truck full of their spent potting soil.. Well, guess what they throw out with the potting soil? Perfectly great plants!! YEAAA!!!!!!!!!!! I got 5 purple salvias that will come back great next year and a whole mess load of a plant called Cuban oregano. The only thing I can figure for them being thrown out was the root ball was way small for the large plant, but they were perfectly healthy. They aren't even going into the ICU.. they are going straight into the garden. It's known as "plectranthus Amboinicus". It's supposed to be a tender perennial, but I don't know if that means me?? I have read about it and it is supposed to be very easy to root. It smells great and can be used in cooking.

I'm obviously going to be needing lots more soil! :) This place is in the back of the nursery where customers aren't normally invited unless your getting some soil... So I'll be getting lots more, and leaving plenty of room for the trashed plants for free!!

Also, for those of you with pick-up trucks, I just invested in a gizmo called a load handler from Northern Tool Co. and boy howdy does it save time shoveling that soil out of the truck. You just crank this thing and the entire load comes out very nicely and easily. Gosh, and to think I've been working so much harder than I need to be... standing knee deep in horse poo and I could have just been cranking it out of the truck.. Oh well, live and learn!!

Susan

Oh and I got about 12 purple butterfly bushes!! Yea!!!!! I'm such a beginner that it took me a while to figure out that the reason these plants were being thrown out was due to the very weedy plant in all the pots which at first I thought was some great plant I wasn't familiar with... Then I saw these smaller butterfly bushes in the middle of these treasured weeds... Beginners!!


This message was edited Oct 3, 2005 10:29 PM