With a Little Help from My Friends

Pot Edition

What do you do when you have 10 brand-new LARGE empty pots, ten million, four hundred and eighty seven bedding plants, and 12 bags of organic potting mix? Oh—and in less than a 100 days, there’s a wedding in your back yard.

If you said “freak out”, I will give you partial credit---but the correct answer we’re looking for is: Enlist the help of those nearest and dearest to you. And the neighbors who were lured over by the promise of iced tea. And their three-year-old granddaughter. And anyone else who may be passing by.

For those of you who are saying “That’s all fine and dandy, Sue, but what does that look like in step by step terms?” Never fear! I will break it down for you.

Because of space constraints I’m going to skip over the part where I discuss purchasing ten million, four hundred and eighty seven bedding plants---I needed no help in that endeavor, just a credit card---and get right down to the nitty-gritty: potting up the plants.

My Pretties

How cool is that? And it was called "Latte"
I HAD to have it

Too pretty to leave behind

 

After you’ve agreed to host the event, purchased as many large Costco pots as would fit in your car and carefully calculated the exact number of cubic feet of potting soil needed to fill X number of pots (in this equation X = pots. 

Cameron pushing Jordan.
Because if you can't have fun...why would you do it?

 Multiple X by the number of bags of potting soil you think you can easily convince your sons to load, divide by the number of sons you have---carry the one—take that number and add two more bags to it because you don’t want to run out; remember large pot=large bags so add an extra—wait. Did I remember to carry the one? Count the number of pots again. Squint at the bags. Decide the bags will fit in the pots. Carry the one...



Oh, just get as many bags of potting mix as you have pots. Plus two.

Simple math people. Now go home and pot.

My work. Cut out for me.