Potatoes and Lavenders and Wedding Dresses

My friend Susan and I went to another friend’s house yesterday morning to get lavender plants for the plant sale. Our other friend has a beautiful property with several nicely-kept lavender hedges—unlike my feral lavender hedges—and her hedges also throw off lots of babies. Her seedlings are easy to pull up because they are growing in the wood bark mulch that has thick weed barrier underneath. (I am wishing we had done bark instead of rocks in the herb garden but oh well.) It took Susan and me about 20 minutes to pull up two large boxes of seedlings. I brought them back to the greenhouse and spent the rest of the morning potting them up. I potted a total of 116 seedlings. We may not sell that many, but all the plant sale leftovers go to the Food Bank so the lavenders will grace many yards in Flathead County.

The weather was cool and misty in the morning but went sideways after lunch. We got rain, sleet, a bit of wind, and I even heard thunder. Apparently, it snowed down in Kalispell. I made a big pot of sauerkraut soup for dinner. The husband ate half of it. I make a broth-based version with bacon, potatoes, carrots, locally-made kielbasa, and sauerkraut.

A couple of potato plants are up:

I love that vibrant green color.

DD#1 drove to Seattle yesterday to go wedding dress shopping with DD#2. I got texts throughout the day with photos of the options. DD#2 is tall and willowy and looks good in everything so she will be beautiful in whatever she chooses.

[When the girls were little and my mother was visiting, we would usually take a trip to Missoula. The mall there had a Children’s Place store. When DD#2 was three years old, she informed my mother that she could choose her own clothes, thank you very much. She was quite stylish even then and destined for a career in fashion.]

I may get some sewing in this afternoon as it looks like the weather will continue to be rather crummy. The forecast calls for cool and unsettled weather until about mid-week, but things should be nice for the plant sale on Saturday. I’ll be glad to have the plant sale done and my own garden put in. The schedule gets much easier once I am not tending hundreds of seedlings every day.