I was in a pickle 🪴 I grew way too many vegetable plants…
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I was in a pickle 🪴
I grew way too many vegetable plants this year.
It’s my first season gardening in a new growing zone, and I overcompensated by starting far more seedlings than I could possibly use. On top of that, I had emergency surgery at the end of 2025 to remove a brain tumor, so moving around and getting everything planted has also been much slower than I expected and I desperately needed to address my maturing plants.
I listed the extra plants for sale: $3 each or 4 for $10. An older gentleman contacted me wanting 36 plants. I was so grateful that someone wanted so many and that the plants would finally get into the ground - that I offered to sell them all for $80.
While packing up his order, I started tucking in extras: pepper plants, herb plants, marigolds, sunflowers, a few lavender clippings and flowers. The flowers were especially important to me. I’ve always been sad by the idea that many men don’t receive flowers until their funeral, so whenever I get the chance, I like to give them!
We arranged a contactless pickup. I put the boxes on my porch, and when he arrived, he left the money under my doormat first and then loaded everything up.
After he left, I went outside to collect the payment
and discovered he’d left $100 instead of $80!
He didn’t know I had packed extra plants for him, and I didn’t know he was planning to leave extra money for me. Now my recovery has been rough, and I haven’t been able to do as many acts of kindness as I used to be able to do - so I was very eager and excited to seize the opportunity! I live by the belief that you never truly know what burdens another person is carrying. So I try to treat everyone with the same kindness and grace I’d hope to receive myself, and whenever possible, give a little extra and always try to be a positive impact to someone’s day. Little did I know that we had both independently decided to do a little more for the other person, and what a beautiful surprise it was too!!
What made me smile wasn’t the extra money or the extra plants—it was realizing that we had both quietly decided to give a little more than was expected.
#inspiration
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I grew way too many vegetable plants this year.
It’s my first season gardening in a new growing zone, and I overcompensated by starting far more seedlings than I could possibly use. On top of that, I had emergency surgery at the end of 2025 to remove a brain tumor, so moving around and getting everything planted has also been much slower than I expected and I desperately needed to address my maturing plants.
I listed the extra plants for sale: $3 each or 4 for $10. An older gentleman contacted me wanting 36 plants. I was so grateful that someone wanted so many and that the plants would finally get into the ground - that I offered to sell them all for $80.
While packing up his order, I started tucking in extras: pepper plants, herb plants, marigolds, sunflowers, a few lavender clippings and flowers. The flowers were especially important to me. I’ve always been sad by the idea that many men don’t receive flowers until their funeral, so whenever I get the chance, I like to give them!
We arranged a contactless pickup. I put the boxes on my porch, and when he arrived, he left the money under my doormat first and then loaded everything up.
After he left, I went outside to collect the payment
and discovered he’d left $100 instead of $80!
He didn’t know I had packed extra plants for him, and I didn’t know he was planning to leave extra money for me. Now my recovery has been rough, and I haven’t been able to do as many acts of kindness as I used to be able to do - so I was very eager and excited to seize the opportunity! I live by the belief that you never truly know what burdens another person is carrying. So I try to treat everyone with the same kindness and grace I’d hope to receive myself, and whenever possible, give a little extra and always try to be a positive impact to someone’s day. Little did I know that we had both independently decided to do a little more for the other person, and what a beautiful surprise it was too!!
What made me smile wasn’t the extra money or the extra plants—it was realizing that we had both quietly decided to give a little more than was expected.
#inspiration
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