Monday, November 21, 2005
Fresh Vegetables & Flowers -- Farmer's Market
Yesterday we went to the harbor to get our weekly fresh vegetables. Of course, we got fresh strawberries too. I told you before that strawberries grow year round here. In addition to things to eat, we bought two flowering plants to have on our picnic table when we go camping for Thanksgiving.
A very frugal way to buy flowers is to buy living plants. We bought a beautiful blooming red cyclamen and pot of purple and white freesia. The nice thing about plants if that they may bloom season after season if they are well cared for.
I have another philosophy on potted plants. If you treat a potted plant as if it were a bouquet of flowers, they gain value in my mind. What I mean is that you can buy a plant and enjoy it for longer than a bouquet of flowers. HOWEVER, some of us have brown thumbs and plants do not do well. In this case, instead of trying to save this plant forever, just treat it like a wilted bouquet of flowers and get rid of it.
You may even have a friend with a green thumb who might like to get free plants now and then. They can take your "sad" plant and revive it for their garden. Potted plants are often very inexpensive. The two above cost $3 each. Even the orchid plants at the farmer’s market are only $13 each.
Fresh vegetables at the harbor — See the boats?
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