Self-Promoting Ping!
Pat yourself on the back! You deserve it, and we can’t reach you!
Actual conversation, and i know you’ve had similar.
Caller: I bought 16 tomato plants from you a month ago. They have brown spots on the leaves.
ME: After the usual questions—what have you fertilized/sprayed/ etc with, and reminding her that it’s really been too cold for tomatoes due to the weather,digging deeper, the woman tells me the plants also have bugs. We determine that they’re aphids. I remind her agaiin that it has been really too cold and she can’t help those leaves. She can spray a fungicide if she wants and she really needs to get rid of the aphids.
Caller: Well, I sprayed them with vinegar to kill the bugs.
Me: Total silence for a moment as I try not to laugh. Ma’am, vinegar is an extremely effective weed killer.
Caller: Oh. Pause. Well, tomatoes aren’t weeds.
Me: Ma’am, we still have plenty of tomato plants and it’s not too late to replant.
Click.