Planting Foo

Yesterday I planted 105 peppers - habanero, kong pow, black pearl, jalepeno, corno verde, gypsy, parks whopper banana and then my sweet bells, chocolate beauty, gourmet, islander and an entire flat of jupiter. I am going to hit restaurants with bell peppers.

Today I want to plant 100 tomatoes - I know I won't cuz I really intend to get the hoses and the mulching done and I don't have the materials for the mulching. I also plan to plant all my eggplant - (plan/plant/eggplant - can't help it - just turns out sounding repetitive).

Della came out to care for the bees - she coos over the girls and speaks lovingly to them - I smile as I tuck peppers into the ground - then I tell them to sit tight - I will water them into the next day. Most of my cole crops look so pretty except for the weeds that are trying to get toe holds - mulch sits in bags unground - my grass is unmowed, my feet are getting tired and my skin is getting brown. I am not sitting still - tomatoes are being tucked into pots for resale at market - plants being arranged for better viewing and Jenks market may be in trouble again - insurance went from $169 to $503 - market doesn't make enough to justify those costs. It gets to where I don't wanna do this - the OTC is trying to force us to buy permits and collect taxes - for 17 years I have paid my damn taxes - I won't become their lacky. Put me in jail.

I have a lot of left over tomato plants - I plan to use existing fence row for a lot of them - stake and weave where there is no fence row - the plants are indeterminate - they won't last the summer and David suggested we plant another flat of parks whopper in about 6 weeks - sometimes he is brilliant.

I am da FOO who will plant all day today and probably most of tomorrow - best of luck all of ya.