While looking for sources for seeds for a frugal garden challenge, I had the following conversation over the phone with a helpful store clerk who was working alone in the store.
Gardener: Hi, do you have any vegetable seeds in yet? Clerk: Vegetable seeds? What are those? Gardener: (thinking quickly to figure out what garden produce might be the most familiar--even though the one I chose is a fruit) Vegetable seeds...they are like tomato seeds. You plant the seed and get a tomato plant. Clerk: I don't know, but I could go look. I have to go to the bathroom. Could you call back in a few minutes. Gardener: Sure, or I could hold the phone, so it won't ring while you are in the bathroom. Clerk: OK. (Puts gardener on hold) ( 7 minutes pass) Clerk: OK, tell me again what you want. Gardener: Little packages of vegetable seeds. They are in envelopes about half the size of letter envelopes. Clerk: OK. (Goes off to look) Clerk: Do seeds make flowers? Gardener: Yes, they do. Clerk: We have some flower seeds. Gardener: Just flower seeds? Do you have any vegetables? Clerk: (Looks again) All of them are flowers except for one--sweet peas. Three other places knew what vegetable and flower seeds were, but told me that the only vegetable they had left was sweet peas. One clerk thought that maybe it was a flower though and not the sort of vegetable I was looking for so she asked about the difference between sweet peas and food peas. It can't be too soon that every school has its own garden! Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
