Y'all, my work inbox is so tidy and organized right now. I'll be cleaning my keyboard pretty soon if nothing comes up for me to do.

It's a shame you can't tackle mine long distance.

It really is.

How much would y'all pay for a 4" pot of a baby veggie that was recently potted up from a plug? 50 cents? We had a salad box workshop get canceled and now we have a plethora of Mizuna, Tatsoi, Deer Tongue Lettuce, Ruby Streaks Mustard, Spinach, and Garden Baby Butterhead Lettuce galore to get rid of, as well as various other annual flowers that I over-propagated and couldn't bear to just chuck like a hardened greenhouse person should do when thinning seedlings.

On the dog food question, I'm feeding Mr. Peabody Costco's Kirkland dry food. It seems to have the best cost-to-nutrition ratio. Meat is the first ingredient and it doesn't have corn. It could use a bit more protein, but I usually give him some meat too. Anyway, my picky little dog likes it. You do have to get some kind of large storage container with a lid, to deal with the ginormous quantities.

Julie, four-inch pots around here go for $3-$4. The minimum price for vegetable plants is a four pack of two-inch cells for $1.80. (What? I'm a little plant obsessed.)

Oh, ugh, ita. I wish they would help you!

My big fat meeting went...fine. Generally good, but there was a super awkward situation with my most-feared department head, which was possibly my fault (although I don't think so). And I was a mess on the A/V. So I feel crappy, but I think everyone else feels good. Except the one department head. I should write my internal thank you notes tonight, but can't bear it. Tomorrow will have to do.

ION, holy crap you guys -- watch what you say on the internet! [link]

They're baby plants and we're getting out of cool-season weather on the salad veggies, so I think it'd be more fair to price them at the four-pack price divided into singles, which basically brings me back to the half-dollar, cool, thanks, Ginger.

Another question is whether leaving an unattended honour cash box/coffee can on the patio is safe(ish). I trust people to pay for the plants they take, but I'm not sure how I feel about leaving a portable stash of cash out all day unattended, where a kid or whomever could just pop the lid and scoop out the change. We're in the suburbs, it's an affluent neighborhood, but we get visitors from all over. Of course we'll collect every night. I wish we could buy a lockable donation-type box that we could fasten to a post, but that isn't happening. Maybe my worries are unfounded.

How many plants are you selling? If it isn't a huge, huge amount, I'd risk it. Will losing the money be a burden for the org financially? If not, risk it.

I'd buy those salads-to-be if I could. Nom.

Dear god, I want to go on an ita !-ish rant. Yeah, a guy at a racetrack got kicked in the 'nads during a fight. He didn't start it. He just ended it. And people are ballistic. Seriously, they are balls. Are they that fucking fragile that it's fine to flip someone in a wreck on the track or punch them in the face but stay away from the 'nads? Nascar swears their balls are made of brass but clearly they're not if this is an issue.