Plant a Garden
by Edgar Guest
“If your purse no longer bulges
and you’ve lost your golden treasure,
If times you think you’re lonely
and have hungry grown for pleasure,
Don’t sit by your hearth and grumble,
don’t let mind and spirit harden.
If it’s thrills of joy you wish for
get to work and plant a garden!
If it’s drama that you sigh for,
plant a garden and you’ll get it
You will know the thrill of battle
fighting foes that will beset it.
If you long for entertainment and
for pageantry most glowing,
Plant a garden and this Summer spend
your time with green things growing.”
Grabbed a four pack of habanero pepper plants from the grocery store this morning. 2 x 2 x 2-1/2 deep cells that look like they’ll fit 18 to a 1020 tray. At $2.50 a four pack I might just buy pepper and tomato plants this year since I’m a month late. Just 7 more 4 packs to fill a tray. (15 to fill 2 trays)
Bought a couple of 18 cell seed trays last year but they’re shallow. Had to cut down the height of a 1020 tray to be able set the in to bottom water. The 2-1/2 deep cells are nice and I don’t mind 4 or 6 packs.
The four pack of habanero has one single, two double and a triple stalked. Gonna cut the middle of the triple out because it’s tiny and that still leaves me with the equivalent of 7 plants for $2.50. About 36 cents per plant or stalk, can’t beat that, and only four holes to dig. Gonna get more next Monday while I’m in town.