I’ve been wanting to check out the Wheaton Farmer’s Market for some time now. Every Sunday morning between June and October. So today, lured by the promise of farm fresh produce that originated in Maryland, not Peru, we ventured out into the heat and traffic of downtown Wheaton to check it out.
Imagine our disappointment when the “farmers market” was two old ladies with a folding table. Scattered about the table were about 20 tomatoes, and two or three other types of produce I couldn’t identify (one was lime green, but they weren’t limes).
Now, in their defense, we did get there kind of late in the morning, so hopefully they had a really good day before we got there and sold out of a bunch of stuff. And maybe other farmers had sold out before we arrived and so they all packed up their folding tables and went back home to grow more stuff for next week. Still, just in case, I don’t think we’ll be making the effort to go again in the future. I’ll just stick with a farmer’s roadside stand that’s sometimes open on the way home from work, I suppose.
maybe because of the drought, there were no farmers out selling their stuff…just a thought.
One of your old blogs talked about the bamboo coming from behind you. Maybe try weed-b-gone along the fence. I can attest to the fact that it kills grass so maybe it will kill bamboo also.
It’s possible that’s the case, and a possibility I hadn’t thought of. Hopefully the farmers are doing okay otherwise. But I’ve also heard before that this particular farmers market was kind of quiet. I just never would have thought it’d be that quiet. This is supposed to be a weekly event, with signs up and everything, and pickup trucks on the side of the road would normally have more selection.
As for bamboo, the problem with it is that bamboo is one big plant. If you look at a grove of bamboo, it’s all one huge plant. The plant sends shoots out underground, and then pops up a new shoot a little further out. The problem is if you kill one shoot, the rest of the plant is still alive. Plus, it’s practically an impossible plant to kill anyway. The options we have are digging a concrete trench about 2 feet deep so the roots can’t get into the yard, or killing the entire grove, which the neighbors might object to, presuming they planted it for a reason. One of these days I’ll get around to calling a landscaper who’ll bother coming out (unlike the last one I called, twice) to do the trench for us.