Garden Store Score!
May. 20th, 2020 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse My friend naomikritzer tipped me off that "Mother Earth Gardens" over in Minneapolis had basil of all varieties. Since we needed to go to the bank to deposit some checks, anyway, Mason and I headed out this afternoon to check it out. Actually, Mason stayed in the car and I donned my mask and headed in.
It actually was surprisingly uncrowded. Most people seemed to know what they wanted and so grabbed that and didn't really browse. That gave me a chance to check out their native plant section. So, along with the basil, I picked up:
Native columbine (this is a photo from this website: https://wimastergardener.org/article/eastern-red-columbine-aquilegia-canadensis/ My garden it not nearly this tidy.)
I have always loved columbine, since coming across it wild at Y camp as a teen. I've tried to grow this in the past, but I'm a bit more hopeful this time around because I have the time to fuss over it. Apparently, it likes things moist and I should be able to provide that where I put it.
I also picked up some prairie pussy toes, which apparently need male and female plants and I have no idea what I got. I suppose that once they sprout and show off their flowers, I can go back to the nursery and pick-out whichever sex I did not get. The females look like this (photo credit: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/field-pussytoes):
I also picked up purple cornflower and wild indigo, both of which need full sun. I don't have a lot of that, but I think I found them a good spot on the south side of the house.
I should really get out and go for a walk today, too, but I am exhausted from waiting to get through the bank drive through. I could NOT believe the line. There were cars jammed in all three spots and I bet I waited a full twenty minutes? Maybe longer? When I got up to the camera/teller box, the teller told me that it's been like this since the stay-at-home order. They closed the interior of the bank, obviously, and so everyone is being funneled through the drive through. A lot of people, apparently, have never done the drive-through (which isn't complicated, but which does take some figuring out the first time) and so often they spend ten minutes or more on each customer, just walking them through the process. I was starting to lose my sh*t, however.
Since we were sitting there for so long, Mason and I decided to order take-out from My Burger.
It's been a big driving day for me, honestly, since I also started my day at the grocery store. I was able to find all the flour again, but now the shelves are absolutely picked clean of chicken. I picked up some white fish (cod, I think?) with the thought of trying out a fish taco recipe, since my family will eat some fish.
Thank goodness we decided to thaw a 17 pound turkey last week. We made it on Sunday and so now we have all the poultry we could eat for a few weeks, at any rate. Because my wife is who she is, we have another 20-some pound turkey still frozen in the freezer.
How have you been? What are the shortages where you are? How does YOUR garden grow?
naomikritzer tipped me off that "Mother Earth Gardens" over in Minneapolis had basil of all varieties. Since we needed to go to the bank to deposit some checks, anyway, Mason and I headed out this afternoon to check it out. Actually, Mason stayed in the car and I donned my mask and headed in.It actually was surprisingly uncrowded. Most people seemed to know what they wanted and so grabbed that and didn't really browse. That gave me a chance to check out their native plant section. So, along with the basil, I picked up:
Native columbine (this is a photo from this website: https://wimastergardener.org/article/eastern-red-columbine-aquilegia-canadensis/ My garden it not nearly this tidy.)
I have always loved columbine, since coming across it wild at Y camp as a teen. I've tried to grow this in the past, but I'm a bit more hopeful this time around because I have the time to fuss over it. Apparently, it likes things moist and I should be able to provide that where I put it.
I also picked up some prairie pussy toes, which apparently need male and female plants and I have no idea what I got. I suppose that once they sprout and show off their flowers, I can go back to the nursery and pick-out whichever sex I did not get. The females look like this (photo credit: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/field-pussytoes):
I also picked up purple cornflower and wild indigo, both of which need full sun. I don't have a lot of that, but I think I found them a good spot on the south side of the house.
I should really get out and go for a walk today, too, but I am exhausted from waiting to get through the bank drive through. I could NOT believe the line. There were cars jammed in all three spots and I bet I waited a full twenty minutes? Maybe longer? When I got up to the camera/teller box, the teller told me that it's been like this since the stay-at-home order. They closed the interior of the bank, obviously, and so everyone is being funneled through the drive through. A lot of people, apparently, have never done the drive-through (which isn't complicated, but which does take some figuring out the first time) and so often they spend ten minutes or more on each customer, just walking them through the process. I was starting to lose my sh*t, however.
Since we were sitting there for so long, Mason and I decided to order take-out from My Burger.
It's been a big driving day for me, honestly, since I also started my day at the grocery store. I was able to find all the flour again, but now the shelves are absolutely picked clean of chicken. I picked up some white fish (cod, I think?) with the thought of trying out a fish taco recipe, since my family will eat some fish.
Thank goodness we decided to thaw a 17 pound turkey last week. We made it on Sunday and so now we have all the poultry we could eat for a few weeks, at any rate. Because my wife is who she is, we have another 20-some pound turkey still frozen in the freezer.
How have you been? What are the shortages where you are? How does YOUR garden grow?