PurplePotato
10-19-2010, 03:13 PM
So this is day 2 of the great hosta transplantation of 2010. :D
My (very new) friend recently bought a new house and she wanted to clear out a bunch of flower beds to make way for grass so the kids had a nice place to play. They just happened to be filled with hostas and ferns which is what I wanted to put in some of my beds. So I went over, had them all dug up and now she'll put grass down. Everyone wins.
Last week (on day 1) I made banana bread and brought that over as a thank you.
Well then on Sunday she decided she wanted more gone so we dug and loaded another pick up truck full of hostas today. I think my total is about 80-90 hostas, 80 ferns and about 60 pretty fuzzy leaf things that may or may not be lambs ear. I mean, even at cheap prices I think this is at least about $2500 worth of plants. But, I also supplied the labor (roughly 4 man hours) to dig them all out of her yard. She would have had to dig them up or hire someone (more likely it was really hard dirt) to dig them up then figure out how to dispose of them.
But one loaf of banana bread doesn't seem like it is enough...or is it?
Plus we're very new friends (our sons are friends from school) so we're still in that polite, get to know you stage.
I will probably not see her again for a few weeks.
What would you do? Is the banana bread enough?
My (very new) friend recently bought a new house and she wanted to clear out a bunch of flower beds to make way for grass so the kids had a nice place to play. They just happened to be filled with hostas and ferns which is what I wanted to put in some of my beds. So I went over, had them all dug up and now she'll put grass down. Everyone wins.
Last week (on day 1) I made banana bread and brought that over as a thank you.
Well then on Sunday she decided she wanted more gone so we dug and loaded another pick up truck full of hostas today. I think my total is about 80-90 hostas, 80 ferns and about 60 pretty fuzzy leaf things that may or may not be lambs ear. I mean, even at cheap prices I think this is at least about $2500 worth of plants. But, I also supplied the labor (roughly 4 man hours) to dig them all out of her yard. She would have had to dig them up or hire someone (more likely it was really hard dirt) to dig them up then figure out how to dispose of them.
But one loaf of banana bread doesn't seem like it is enough...or is it?
Plus we're very new friends (our sons are friends from school) so we're still in that polite, get to know you stage.
I will probably not see her again for a few weeks.
What would you do? Is the banana bread enough?