PLANTING SHRUBS & TREES OR BASICALLY ANYTHING IN THE GROUND!!

    Sometimes I forget that folks are not born with a “Green Thumb” and that this is an acquired skill!  Since I do this most every day, I just assume that everybody knows the same tricks of the trade that I do, and that folks know the basics of planting…..NOT….

     Yesterday I had two nice young men drive all the way from South Houston to Talbott Nursery and Poultry to buy a few edibles.  I saw that they were coming over 100 miles and so treated like them royalty, when they got here, instead of maybe like they were crazy for driving that far and buying only 5 things!!  Chuckle!!!  Sometimes people don’t trust the USPS…can’t say I blame them on occasion…..these young men spoke with heavy Russian accents so I asked them where they were from….one was Russian and the other was from Estonian.  I asked them their opinion of Putin, and after a string of expletives from the Estonian, I gathered that they actually would rather not speak of something they had no control over, and certainly didn’t seem to care much about! 

     They bought 3 different American Grape Vines and 2 different Blueberries.  They were in a hurry to get back and retrieve their car from a repair shop, so off they went in the evening traffic….they had asked some pretty basic questions, yet didn’t give themselves time enough to understand the answers I gave them and planting instructions because of their time constraints.  Sooooo….I wrote them a lengthy email of instructions, then read it over and realized that word instructions were really not sufficient for those who seemed not to know much about planting, but only had one goal---eating grapes and berries off their own vines and bushes!!  Then I realized that that was the situation always…..EPIPHANY…..people don’t want lengthy instructions to read…they just want results….buy grape vines and then eat grapes!!!  Simple, huh???  So I’m gonna start making some videos on how to do whatever!!!  Until that time I have found a couple of U-tube videos that fit the bill partly…below is one on planting….Enjoy!!!!!  John T

Here is the link to a Dave’s Garden Planting video…cut and paste in your browser:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE5NvBN3vZY