Don't buy from Gurneys

well I didn't work for the orange box, but I worked for Lowes knows how to aggrivate their employees and I resemble that remark! Only with me, they got a high school educated, life and road educated old middle aged master gardener who cared about the plants and the customers. And you're right, C. they're in the hardware business, but they also take their gardening center's fairly serious. It's about to be the "100 days of madness", I always tell people that the only thing they need look for is diseased and insects, and unless they need landscaping trees or shrubs, to avoid the perennials now since they're so over grown and root bound. I HATE how they have convinced the nurseries that grow the stock that the bigger the plant the better. Give me a small plant that has been bumped up for three years and has ample soil and not all packed fulla roots and I'll purchase it quickly. The diversity doesn't count if the roots are the shape of the freaking pots........I'm starting to be more than fed up with the practices of nurseries and such. and today I'm just fed up with the govn't and corn industry. I gotta stop reading Grist......it's depressing the hell outa me.....I'll be posting an update on the doings in Fairy Holler soon. pardon my ranting and mumblings. madgardener

madgardener: Lowe's nursery stock so expensive compared to HD. Although I try to frequent small, local nurseries rather than the big boxes, especially for shrubs and tress. Annuals I do hit the big boxes. The best is to ask which days the trucks deliver and stop by that evening after work.

Again "Mr. Down everything because you know nothing" Kanter.. The HD I shop at actually during their opening meeting once, as I walked by, the ASM was actually READING the vop to the associates and they KNEW who each statement was about without names mentioned.. I thought that was info coming down from The Great Wall of Silence as you call it and it was doing some good. I'll reiterate my statement from before. Not all box stores are the same. From blue to orange, it depends on who's there now. Hell the one 6 miles down the road from the one I shop, well I can't say enough bad things of them.. That's where to get the discount perennials in the late summer... By the way this HD is in Short Pump Va. Excellent nursery choices. The better Lowes here is the one closest to the other HD I mentioned. The district Lowes home office is in the same mall as the HD I Shop and they SUCK OUT LOUD!

Judging by your post and command of the English language, I would bet you two are leading in the contest, no?

Deciphering your 3rd grade writing isn't really worth the trouble, but I get the general idea of what you tried to say.

A month ago, I walked into the store to buy two simple fluorescent fixtures for my basement. The signs on the wall next to the display fixtures contain HD SKU numbers. The actual product boxes have no numbers which match the signs on the wall. It took almost 90 minutes to find someone who could match the thing on the wall to the correct boxes.

That shopping trip should've been over in 15 minutes. I could've had one of the two fixtures installed if I hadn't wasted time with their defective display system. The receipt contains a code number you can use to take a survey. I asked to be called about the problem in that store. Hasn't happened yet. I called the home office directly and left a message for the district manager. No response.

When I tell you the company is unresponsive, you have no choice but to accept what I say.

Wow. This game is easy. :-)

I can beat the 90 min. thing. We was looking for a handle for a roofing brush and they never did find them. About 5 clerks said they knew they had them but none could find them. They could find the brushes and the roofing but no handles. Call me what you want but our local HD is a joke. Even Wal-Mart has better service.

From Mel & Donnie in Bluebird Valley

Sweet potatoes aren't grown from seeds, they're grown from "slips" and those are transplanted. Vine cuttings work too as that's basically what slips are. Doubt that sweet potatoes are a normal crop for Toronto, they're normally grown much farther south.

George

Yup, this is an issue that my girfriend and I were discussing just the other day. Hybridization and genetic manipulation for the sole purpose of maintaining a monopoly can hardly be a good thing for farmers or the greater public, particularly when it puts our food supply at risk because of reduced genetic diversity and potential genetic crossover to other plants.

Thad

I grew them very successfully in Rochester NY, right across the lake from Toronto. He'll have no problem with them, unless deer attack the leaves, in which case the potatoes will be more like fat carrots than the sweet potatoes we see in grocery stores.

Isn't there a plant-by-the-moon thing with sweet taters?

There's a plant by the moon thing with all crops, if you look hard enough. Consult a Wiccan. :-)

Kinky!

Suspiciously sounds like an excuse for making whoopee in the garden.

An old friend of mine believed that if she dripped menstrual blood in her garden, it would be a good thing. Wiccan thing.

How sad that is.

She sounds like a Debbie Downer, a real party pooper.

She must not get invited to any garden parties.

LOL