Sutherlands Mother's Day Plant Sale

They call it, "Punching for Posies" - 3,000 revved up gardeners lined up to get the best deals in bedding plants, perennials and veggie starts at Sutherlands Mother's Day plant sale.  To calm the competitive spirit, music and food were provided; a well-organized system of tickets and payment kept it all moderately under control.

Bountea had a strong presence, handing out samples of SuperStart and educating some of the "bedding-planters" into the wonders of organic growing and compost tea. It still surprises me that only about 1 in 20 of Boulder residents has any interest or concern for their soil.  For the vast majority, it is stick in the plant and dump on the Miracle Grow!  Still, a few of those standing in line took the time to talk with myself or Stacey.

Person by person, gardeners are slowly taking more care of their soil ecology.