Last year I went to this plant sale — Master Gardeners’ Mother’s Day Sale — that everyone told me was suppose to be the end-all be-all of plant sales. But I went on Sunday afternoon and it was completely picked over. I ended up with a lemon cucumber and few tomatoes but no squash, eggplant, etc. I was really disappointed. That said the stuff I did get did great, so I resolved to go on Saturday this year.

On Thursday, I met up with some friends and mentioned I was planning this and one of my besties asked to come too. So Saturday morning I hauled my butt out of bed at reasonable time, fetched Angela and headed into the bowels of Vancouver for the sale. We both hit the motherload and I am came home with everything I wanted except for a few varieties of pepper — but they are easy to find at Fred Meyer or Lowes. Super bonus is that veggies are only $1 each — so the whole garden for less than $25!

The Plan — Many a cold winter night went into dreaming about this!

Spent all day Sunday getting things planted:

4 kinds of Eggplant, 2 winter squash (hubbard and delicata), beans and peas. And some very sad onions. Also argula and lettuce (they were planted a few weeks ago and had sprouted nicely.)

Peppers and radishes (a few weeks old too).

Tomatoes — 8 different kinds (Stupice, green zebra, lemon boy, orange, San Marzena roma, Pink, Brandywine). May be too many but I love tomatoes and they freeze well. Carrots and beets planted on the edges.

Summer squash (zucchini, yellow, patty pan) and Butternut winter squash

Cucumbers — Lemon and regular

Overall — Looking great and really excited for harvest time. And with the new irrigation system, hopefully everything won’t die!

Bonus Buy:

A happy little maple tree

Angela wasn’t really into veggies so I spent some time looking at trees and perennials with her. I couldn’t resist this awesome little Japanese maple — especially for only $9! Not sure where it is going to live yet but it makes me happy to look at!