11-17-2025-The Brainy Bunch

     We are the plant tags that identify every plant that leaves Glacial Ridge Growers.  We are a very literate bunch, with accurate descriptions of all the plants that we accompany.  Our diversity is amazing.  Not only do we represent vegetables, annual flowers, native perennials, herbs, and others, but we find ourselves divided into many groups or classes of plants.  As an example, there are many vegetables in the group of cole crops, such as broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and many others.  Our collective knowledge of plants is incredible.  We need to inform gardeners about how each plant will perform in the garden as to height, color of bloom, light requirements, and many other attributes. We plant tags need to be informed and completely knowledgeable about nearly a thousand different plants.

      At this time of the season we are all snuggled in boxes either on the tag library shelves, or some of us are still in a box on a pallet, yet to be unpacked and put into the open spaces on a shelf.  We know that our time to shine will come, as the plants grow and are put into their pots.  We will accompany the plants to their final destination, our feet soaked each day and we nearly drowned as the plants get watered. We will all join our plant friends and guide gardeners to a wonderful summer of enjoyment.
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