HIXTON, Wis. – Gardeners’ cars and pickups lined County Road FF for a quarter mile on both sides at Gethke’s Greenhouse. Customers squeezed by each other in narrow aisles in the greenhouses themselves and queued at clerks at the check-out machines.
Madhouse on County FF. Pent up after a long winter indoors, happy gardeners crammed every hillside parking space at Gethje’s. Some carried their boxes a quarter mile to their cars for trips home to plant to plant their summer dreams. Image: Steve Lunde