Being Retired, Tired, and feeling unemployed I was checking out some local resources for improving my garden this Spring. I found the following two events in one of our local magazines that I picked up at the Public Library:
- I can drop by the Wornall House and Museum on Saturday, April 25 from 9 a.m. until sold out and buy herb and wildflower plants for the garden. (6115 Wornall Rd., Kansas City, MO).
- There is a Citywide Plant and Seed Exchange on Saturday, May 9, from 9 a.m. until noon at the Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center. (4750 Troost, Kansas City, Mo)
The sale of herbs will be a good way to add new plants to our upstairs patio garden which is starting to complain about the lack of sun inside the house. We will start to move the small trees outside sometime in May after all danger of cold weather is over. The article mentions the benefits of herb gardening with over 15 million U.S. households having some form of herb gardening. Maybe it has become popular as households in lofts, apartments or houses with small backyards can easily garden in containers or limited sunny space. Estimated spending on this type of gardening is around $400 million. (I am looking forward to spending part of my Saturday morning picking out some new herbs for the garden and looking at an old historical house dating back to the Civil War.)
The Plant exchange should be interesting to attend also. Local gardeners will have some of their extra plants for trade or sale as well as seeds, bulbs, tubers, and cuttings. The Conservation Discovery Center is also one those neat local resources with a small lobby for book sales and rooms set up for meetings and for educational fieldtrips. Mo fishing licenses are also on sale and with Spring finally in the air I will check to see if I need to renew mine. I have been checking out the fishing gear lately and dusting off the tent. When one is retired, tired, and feeling unemployed the fish had better watch out!
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