the deal is, i'm wondering if i have time to put in a new crop of salad greens before it gets too cold. probably not. but you never know. and i could put row cover over them if frost came as early as the end of october. well, i don't know. maybe i'll just plant in a lot of the stuff still in pots from the summer. i spent this summer growing stuff to sell at the flea market in laurel, bargain bill's. i started towards the end of may while it was still cold and wet, with no idea if anyone would be interested in buying plants. it turned out to be a love/hate kind of thing, equal parts of both. i met other gardeners who came to feel like friends, sold a lot of stuff, spent way too much time just hanging around doing nothing (a lot of sloooowwwww time in between customers), didn't really make any money. but i got a feel for doing this, and i liked it. after i sold most of the stuff i grew i bought from wholesalers, and made some more friends there. i have good contacts now if R and i decide to do this on a larger scale next summer.
but! i still have a truckload of leftover plants that i'm babying along. i may go the the market one more time and try to offload some of them. or not. some will winter over in pots, some i'll plant. some will probably feed the compost. which is a truly noble cause. i'm waiting for cooler weather to get back into the gardening mode. august was too hellishly hot and humid, that's when the weeds with their roots in the depths of hell came and took advantage of my torpor.
so, that was the day of sunshine and dirt. after a delicious shower, oh bless its holy name, i feel clean and exhausted and happy. we'll get back out there tomorrow. there's still the greenhouse to put back together. isabel isabel, you really faked us out. although i do think the greenhouse would have been flying around the neighborhood if we hadn't taken it apart.
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