2nd trip to a nursery

This is the one about a mile from our house, family owned, it's been there for 30+ years and is open 2-3 months a year.

Masks are required. No one under 16. Stay six feet apart. If there are no carts, do not enter (the place is full)

This is the first time I have HAD to wear a mask. We have some homemade ones that don't fit me so we had to take some time to figure out what would work. Finally ended up cutting the elastic and using a shoe string that we had cut into pieces. Not an easy on/off but it works. Masks will discourage me from going anywhere.

Usually when we go the tomatoes are a half or a foot tall. This year they are about 3-4 inches. A lot of the plants had just broken the ground. It looks like they may have planted the bigger items before the lock down and then put everything on hold until they knew they could open. So of this stuff may have even been planted last week after they opened.

I am going to try water mellons again this year and the nursery had two pots of what I wanted. One pot had one plant, the other had -0-. Usually I plant 3-4. So I got a different kind.

Without a list ... we ended up with our usual four kinds of tomato's and four kinds of peppers. They are something I have never tried growing from seed. We also got eggplant, still need to find some way to use them. Onions, two kinds of spouts instead of a bag of sets. And this year we bought our three kinds of squash as plants instead of as seeds.

For tomatoes we had been trying different kinds of large tomatoes and they would rot before getting ripe. Last year we also tried a Hawaiian tropic one, couldn't tell the difference. And I have usually tried to plant a yellow one and an early one.

This year we ended up with one that will produce small tomatoes, one early but not the same variety as usual. And two medium sized that I will try my hand at making tomato juice from.

For peppers last year we had a banana pepper, a hot pepper, a baby bell and something else. This year we got a gypsy pepper and three colors of bell peppers.