FRANKLIN GARDEN CLUB PLANT SALE - Outdoor Wednesday

Linking to Outdoor Wednesday

 Susan at, A Southern Daydreamer, is our host for today's event.  Please visit Susan's blog for great outdoor posts.

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MY GARDEN CLUB PLANT SALE

This was the most successful sale we have ever had.  We had fun, worked hard and made money for our projects and community contributions.

I am so proud to be a part of this garden club.  The following photos will show you why I feel proud. We rocked at this annual plant sale!!!

This sale was held in the Clocktower Garden in downtown Franklin.

This garden and the Rankin Square Garden across the street from this one, is our main club project.  We help maintain the gardens by having a workday once a month.

We are dedicated to this project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We sold approximately $1400. worth of plants.  Our members saved, planted and brought hundreds of plants to our sale.   Thank you to the best garden club members anyone could have.

I love you all.

Jeanne, The Franklin Garden Club President

Happy Outdoor Wednesday

 

Comments

[racheld]

How very beautiful, Jeanne---a true LABOR of Love. I could just buy up every plant you've got there, for my eyes and wishes far exceed my gardening skills and energy. The table of African Violets especially brought sweet memories---my Mammaw's sister Aunt Lucy had such a stock of those---all on little white metal shelves like ladders with tiny fluorescent lights stretched under each shelf. They were all in windows of the back of the house for the day's sunlight, and then at night, every window had this soft blue glow behind the blinds.

I always thought that they were her only BEAUTIFUL in that long work-day world she lived in, with that big store to run, and open six days a week from dawn til after dark.

I'm just thinking so hard about her right now---might I use the table picture on my blog in the next few days?

Always SO good to see you, either here, or at "my house."

love,

rachel

[Penny @ The Comforts of Home & Flea Market Makeovers]

Congrats on the great sale Jeanne! Maybe I could come to the one next year! Sounds like a fun day. You will have to let me know when it is.
Hugs,
Penny

Jeanne, I know how much you enjoy your garden club, and I also know how lucky they are to have you. I would love to have been there to scoop up some of those plants.

[Pat in New York]

Congratulations on your very successful plant sale, Jeanne! I would have bought a couple of those pretty African violets if I was there!

[claudie]

And I know you worked your buns off, lol.... We ran those roads and bugs hard to get you home for the big day... ha ha ha
I'm going outside to weed now. Wish me luck.
LYTTMABA
xoxoxoxo

[shelia]

Hi Jeanne! OH, congratulations on the wonderful sale you had for your garden club. What a gorgeous garden to work in! I see some african violets, lamb's ear and begonias! :)
Be a sweetie,
shelia ;)

[HappierThanAPigInMud]

Congrats on not only such a successful sale but beautiful gardens too! Enjoy:@)

[dana]

Madame President,

Your garden sale looks fabulous! I'm so glad it was such a grand success!! I know that it takes a lot of work to pull something like that off. . .good job to you and your fellow members!

Had a new splint put on my arm yesterday and it's not good. I'm heading back to the ortho's office to have them adjust it. . . then off to take my girl for yet another appt. Like is lousy right now. . . .I know you will lift my spirits when I get to see you soon.

L, Dana

[Ann]

Congrats on doing such a superb job on your sale. All the flowers look so vivid and healthy. I spotted several I would have bought. The setting also looks glorious.

Ann

[Cami]

Oh wow. What beautiful plants/flowers!!!! I wish I had a green thumb like you :)

[Anne]

Jeanne what an honor for you to head up this wonderful club and be part of such an awesome project! I need your talent and friends to come help me plant a garden here!

Have a beautiful Sunday!

[Darmini]

Grandma's Keepsakes . Anna Krajewski Licensed to SSI D#80407 ,(I wish I had purchased more of this farbic . It was perfect for this project);and the flower pots were just randomly cut out of a clay colored farbic. The Alphabet stitches out beautifully so don't miss it!!That's for the ego trip!!!

[Yulisa]

This is so pretty! Makes me want to skip work and get srtated even though I don't have the pretty pots fabric. lol I especially like the flower pots appliqued. Very nice!

[Muhamed]

I had mine built with 2 6 but I had them made 4ft x 6ft. I have used them now for 5 years and love gardening this way. I have more cotrnol over the weeds and I don't seem to get as many pests. But my favorite part about these beds is the fact that I can actually plant at least one month before everyone else does because if I watch the weather report I know if I need to go out and cover the beds with plastic over night. These beds protect your seedlings from the wind too. I keep sheets of plastic like a paint drop cloth rolled up at the end of each bed if I need to cover I just pull the plastic over the bed and secure it with dirt or rocks. I doubt I will ever garden any other way again.Hope this helps. Enjoy

[Tim]

If you are plainning to plant with deep root syetsm (carrots ) you will need at least 8 . For regular rooting crop like tomato, squash . 6 should be enough. Make sur that your bed is wide enough to allow root spreading and to allow the heat to disipate. Water retention will also be lower in a smaller bed. In a warm zone this can mean more watering. Use a mixture base with a good compost rather than peat moss.Marc

[Gabriela]

i just got a raised palnter .3 5 and 22in tall. I plan on growing herbs in it (maybe a vegetable, too). What kind of soil/mix of soil should i use to fill it.a cheaper version seems to be 3 cubic foot bags of garden soil by Kellogg any opinions?should I mix in compost..how much?should i add any sand?worms?anything else?I am new to this and want to do it right.Thanks for your help.

[Jenny]

I was very tempted to say herbs, but that would be gtteing off to a bad start! lol. I have chives, marjorum, rosemary. basil,parsley,oregano,thyme,lemon verbena(also great as an ornamental shrub), a bay tree.All are easy to grow respond well to being harvested regularly once the plant is established.

[Rodger]

They are amazing to meet like that, the delay while we stare at each other LOL at Goldilocks, rniemds me of the version in where Goldilocks is a vegan animal rights activist and the bears eat her as she is checking if they're being exploited or not properly cared for

[Nicole]

You can buy the sock with or without cosmopt inside, if you want to do it more inexpensively. If you want to use your own cosmopt that's great, you just have to make sure you fill the sock not too tight, not too loose. Potato bags are good too, but the beauty of the socks is that they are made to breathe. That is the point, that the cosmopt can breathe and stay active so it can release nutrients to the plants. And it doesn't get root bound like a pot.

[Paulo]

IMHO this totally detfeas the idea of growing your own, and I hate to say this is an overpriced gimmick. To grow vegetables, all you need is dirt, seeds, water, fertiliser, lots of sun, and time. You don't need MicroNutrient Technology(TM)' ,UltraFiber Containment System(TM), and Brawndo (it's got what plants crave). Back to basics!

[Sufiandy]

Compost. Fish emulsion. Used cefofe grounds! (Get them from your local cefofe shop Starbuck's gives them away!)If you use manure, make sure it's been aged/composted first fresh manure shouldn't be used directly on garden beds.