Surprise Blueberry Hunt AND TIP for letting plants go to seed.

The morning started early with me up to iron DH's trousers and shirt for work. I didn't return to bed, deciding I felt quite a bit better this morning and perhaps could do something useful! I had hoped to WS those packages of seeds that didn't get done Monday. After relaxing a bit with a phone call to Peggie, my phone's battery was dead again. I decided to go to town to buy a new one. By this time it was a little after eleven so I thought I'd get some lunch as well. My first stop was at WalMart. Although they didn't have the correct battery, they did have some great sprays for the Kong Coleus I'd bought last week (something is eating and leaving large holes in the leaves). I decided to get another of the coleus while I was there (the colors on these plants are wonderful with greens, yellows, reds, burgundy, etc.). So I leave WM with no battery but another plant (oops), two bottles of spray and a quart of oil for the Volvo. So on to lunch at Cracker Barrel (meatloaf on Tues....yea!!!) and then into KMart for a battery. I did find one I think will work. Just across the road from KMart is Rosewood Nursery (BIG mistake for them to have built this nursery there............yeah right) so I decided to just walk through. Nothing really grabbed me until I passed a group of gallon size blueberry shrubs for $6.99. I've been looking for a blueberry this year so WHY NOT? I bought one (was told I have to have two different varieties to cross pollinate so will have to look for another variety later). The very small shrub had several green berries already forming. Will try to post a photo in a day or two as well as the name of the blueberry. Now..........just across the road from the nursery is BIG LOTS where I needed to pick up a couple more packages of Good Sense Deep Dish containers for a few more WS seeds. As I passed by the shelving, a foldable book (dark cherry color) shelve for $39.00 caught my eye .... I've been needing something like this to clear up all the "stuff" on the living room floor around the tv. We'll see after I try it out tomorrow if it is a keeper or not. Finally I headed home with my treasures.

I arrived at home around 2:45 to find DH home early and out on the mower, followed by his ritual of weed eating the whole yard. Well, my idea of getting anything gardening done was over.

Today was my brother, Tony's last radiation treatment for prostate cancer. We are praying and trusting God for wonderful results for Tony with this treatment. He is probably the rock of my life, and I only hope I give him as much!

I'm adding this just before bedtime around midnight. I saw this on WS Gardenweb today. It's great advice and seems quite clever:
When I have a Sweet William which I'd like to keep I let it flower, but not seed. If you want seeds, only let one stem go to seed, but deadhead all others. In that case the plant concentrates on it's roots and not in seed making.