The past couple of days, we've had several guys coming in and loading up on what I would consider subsistence quantities of strictly open-pollinated vegetable seed. A few hundred dollars worth of about 20 different varieties, enough for an acre or so sized garden with some to spare. One guy asked what I would grow if I couldn't go to the grocery store anymore so he obviously wasn't a gardener. One asked me the best way to store seeds and how to save seeds from the vegetables he picked. There were a couple of them waiting in the store while we filled his order and another gentleman came in and asked for a catalog. The new guy and one of the ones waiting got to talking and I hear the other guy say to the one that came in with him, "Hey, he's one of us!"
I know when the last rapture didn't happen, they recalculated and had a new date but I don't remember when that was.
They wouldn't have garnered a second look if you passed them on the street. All middle-aged to older, white dudes. All driving passenger cars, no bumperstickers that gave an obvious clue. But it is a strange time of year to be stocking up on garden seed (although we do sell a lot to the farm workers who bring them back home to the Caribbean for the winter). They were all very polite and paid with credit cards (maybe thinking they'd never have to pay the cc bill?
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Anyone know what's up?
Am I ill-prepared as usual?
09-23-2011, 02:20 PM
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