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My younger daughter has a job in horticulture…..

We were fortunate to live in Florida…because she was able to attend the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind (FSDB) in St. Augustine…..

It was a life-changer for her…..

And after graduating from FSDB…she went on to complete more schooling at the Florida First Coast Technical College (FCTC) in horticulture…*****(First Coast Technical College)*****

This last weekend we went to the Biannual Plant Sale at the University of South Florida’s Botanical Gardens…..

We figured we should get more fruit trees and vegetable plants…to take advantage of my daughter’s expertise…..

My older daughter has developed quite a green thumb too…their Grandfather had the same vegetative-skills (the growing kind…not the staring & drooling kind)…..

But alas…it skipped me…..

I’m good with poultry and Irish Wolfhounds…..

…..not so great with plants…..except for the brown…wilted…crushed…or maybe silk varieties…..

And so…we went to the plant sale…..

I was put in charge of the “wagon”…and you see…that was a problem…..

…..our wagon is a serious farm wagon…capable of hauling hay bales…moderately-sized baby animals…and feed bags…..

…..”their” wagons were collapsible eco-colored (or pastel if the mood was right) canvas…that couldn’t even carry a pony-keg…..

I may have run out of patience…(once or twice)…with the yuppies…or Gen-X-Y-Z-ers…..

I may have run over a few of their Birkenstock-clad toes…or their trendy ergonomic garden clogs…..

…..I may have…..

And why do garden hats have to look so wrinkly and crushed(?)…..

Get a decent straw hat(!)…..

But damn…they kept blocking my ingress and egress into plant booths…clutching their artisan coffees….

…..while chit-chatting about the various values of Chrysanthemum varieties over Gerber daisies…..

…..MOVE IT!…OR MILK IT!…PEOPLE!…..

…..(this all goes to show…I don’t get out enough…do I?)…..

My daughters just left me (with the wagon)…to deal with my own mulch-spewing and compost-spitting behavior…..

I thought one vendor was going to pass out after asking me what kind of fertilizer I used on my mulberry tree…..

I started listing the various animals…and their various dumps…..

…..(apparently they don’t mean “that kind” of organic fertilizer anymore)…(how indelicate of me)…..

…..(Hey Everybody!…”Fertilizer Happens”)…..

We filled up my Humvee of a wagon…..

We got an established tomato plant…some sunflower plants…a fig tree…and a Soursop tree…among other goodies…..

I wasn’t interested in the hybridized mangos or avocados…and I couldn’t find a loquat tree…..

I passed by the blackberry bushes…(they were thornless)…(blackberry bushes should have thorns)…..

But…if left to my own devices…I will kill all the plants…..

…..(and possibly bruise a few yuppies)…..

…..so…I’m handing everything green over to my daughters…and I’m going back to my hounds and poultry…..

 

 

 

 

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