Just got home from the plant sale and we did very well! $189!Thanks to everyone who came and bought plants. This was our first try at it and I would have been happy with a hundred dollars. We almost doubled that and I'm ecstatic! To give you an idea of how much that is, it's:
189 packages of seeds
or 14 cubic yards of composted cow manure
or half of the Pea Patch greenhouse
or the entire water system for the 38x17 wide row plot, including a timer
or almost half of the garden shed on our want list
or 18 fruit trees (where are we going to put them all?!)
or the entire asparagus patch, complete with soil ammendments and fertilizer for a year.
We had very few plants left ~ not even enough to completely fill the back of my little Toyota truck. Not bad when you think what we started with (picture above, and that's not all of them). Thanks to Alice, Kelly, Connie and Bettie for all the help and plants. And to all the new friends we met today ~ thank you, thank you, thank you for buying them! We enjoyed meeting every one of you and look forward to working with you in the Pea Patch next year.
The book fair inside did quite a good bit of business as well ~ almost $800! That's a lot of books sold and a lot more books we can buy. Incredible. Jane was busy all day long both Friday and Saturday and it sure paid off.
I have to add this:
The next gorgeous piece of art made by Alice (left), Carol (right) and their quilting group. It will be raffled off to benefit the library. Each year they make one of these and each year it's more beautiful than the last.
Now I'm headed outside to plant some garlic before the rain comes...
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