Good Morning! Happy Mother's Day to all those celebrating this weekend!

I am back from visiting my mom. She thoroughly enjoyed her lobster. She loved her kneeler and we had a wonderful visit and lots of fun plant shopping.  She has a really excellent farm stand near her house.  Very healthy plants that they grow themselves and very reasonably priced.  She picked out her flat of impatiens.  She also got some cascading petunias, some pepper plants, and some cuke plants.  I got a hanging basket of geraniums for by my front door, a flat of snapdragons, and the rest of my haul was veggie plants.  They have lots of heirloom tomato plants.  The plants are huge and healthy for $1 each.  smiley: happy  I think it is a very reasonable price and love that I don't have to get 6 of any one kind.  I selected a super sweet cherry tomato, a large red cherrry tomato, (Mom donated 3 Mrs G, small yellow plum/pear tomatoes that she started herself to the cause), 2 brandywine red, 2 german johnson, 2 giant belgium and just for grins (and to further the concept tomatoes don't have to be red)...1 cherokee purple.  I got 6 sweet pepper plants...2 green, 2 red, 2 yellow.  I also got 6 hot pepper plants.  I think that might be too many.  A very nice young man helped me out.  Turns out he is the owner's son and will take over some day.  I wanted hot but not too hot and wanted more variety than just getting all jalepeno.  I also asked him about yellow tomatoes.  He said they hadn't grown any.  I explained about my friend with the kidney stone/low acid situation.  He asked what varieties I would have liked to have found.  Brandywine yellow?  Kellogg's Breakfast?  Perhaps there will be some next year.  Or maybe he was just being polite.  I got one cuke plant at Mom's insistence.  She doesn't grow cukes from seed direct planted.  I also have a cuke plant my sister started and a zucchini.  The rest of our garden plot will be started from seed.  Oh, and I got basil.  They didn't have the really overgrown ones this year.  But their six packs had 6-10 plants jammed into each cell... so minimum 36 plants for $2.50.  I dibbled out basil for Mom yesterday.  Will get mine done this afternoon.  I am mentioning prices because on my way home I stopped at a local nursery considered to be reasonably priced.  I was on a quest for yellow tomato plants.  I found one variety that was yellow.  Lemon Boy..has anyone grown that one?  I could buy one plant for $2.75.  It was small compared to the other plants I bought.  Or I could buy a 6 pack of slightly smaller plants for same money.  I shall find a spot for the extras in my gardens.  I saw people scooping up 6 packs of basil also for $2.75... but those 6 packs had precisely 6 plants in them!  smiley: wink  Mom's farm stand had annuals 6 packs for $2.50 or $16/flat of same or $17 of mixed variety.  This place had annual 6 packs for $3.75 with no discount if you bought a flat.  I am curious how these prices compare to what others across the country pay.  I might do better at grocery store or HD or Lowes....but I prefer to buy plants from the growers.  My other quest at this second place was cleome, two 6 packs.  Laughing, I was on a mission so didn't take a cart/wagon.  Big mistake.  I only strayed once and picked up a 6 pack of sungold tomato.  I love that one.  So I only had four 6 packs of plants to carry across the nursery.  How hard can that be?  You just line them up 2 per hand and clamp them together with your fingers.  Easy?  My hands are still cramping.  It is a rather large nursery... perhaps I just don't use those muscles like that much. 

I hope everyone is having as nice weather as we are this weekend.  Perhaps some showers later.  I got the plants out of my car but have to go get them out of the tomato boxes they packed them in for me and put the boxes in the garage so they won't get wet.  The tomato boxes are perfect for transporting the large tomato plants....gives them support.  I still have to get them to the garden plot. 

We also made a run to Ocean State Job Lot.... not sure if any of you have those.  The prices are cheap but what they sell is what they can buy cheaply from overstock etc.  I got landscape fabric.  And stakes.  And bunches of peony and tall plant ring supports for my flowers. 

I suppose I should get going here!  Hope everyone has a lovely day!