May 06 2006
Edible Plant Sale
Robert and I volunteered to help out at the Seattle Tilth Edible Plant Sale on May 5th. It’s one of the two major events hosted each year by this great organization (the other being the harvest fair).
Robert served as a jack-of-all-trades. He started out selling compost and potting soil. Later in the day, he helped write sales tickets. Not being as gregarious as Robert, I hid behind my camera and photographed the event. It was a challenging task trying to frame photos so I didn’t end up with hundreds of look-alike crowd shots. I also had to operate a lot faster than I’m used to. The charming scenes were as fleeting as a dandelion seed in the wind. I’m proud of myself for pulling off 50 + fairly good shots of the event, which Seattle Tilth was very pleased with. They’ll be using them on their website and in newsletters.
While at the sale, I sat in on a clinic on culinary herb gardening. Much of it was review from the comprehensive organic gardening class I took earlier this spring, but I did learn a few new things. I learned that lemon basalm will spread like crazy and that it’s best to plant it in a container. That sent me scurrying around the yard digging up what I had planted a few weeks ago and plopping it in one of the large whisky barrels in our front yard. Catastrophe averted 
We didn’t purchase very many plants, since our beds are jam-packed as it is. We picked up a few squash, basil and some cucumbers.
