Wow! What a weekend for the plants around my house! We spent the greater part of all weekend purchasing items and working around the yard. I should start by saying that god love her, Liz mowed the lawn Saturday while I was golfing .. what a nice surprise that was! She mentioned that it was due to the amount of work that I did on Friday evening around the house that she felt that it would be a nice break for me. Well it sure was! Thanks babe!!
No, this isn't my garden.. I wish!!
I should also mention that I’m extremely exhausted while I write this right now so if my grammar and writing is all messed up – don’t make a big deal out of it. Truth is I just got in the door from planting what seems to have been a million plants around the house and in containers and I can barely keep my eyes open.
Unlike last year around this time, we didn’t decide to plant a whole lot of seeds this year and start from scratch. I’m a little bummed about that as I really enjoyed doing it – but then again, I didn’t really need 32 tomato plants did I? Not only that – the tomato plants I DID plant and use, well.. I planted too many of them together so they ended up yielding tiny tomatos. Not this year! This year we did things differently.
Firstly, I bought a wheelbarrow a few weeks back – don’t ask me how a guy like myself whom likes to do things around the house got around without one before… caught a great Sunday sale at Home Depot and scored a bright red one for $59.99 I believe. Great deal I thought. This weekend however, we purchased (also at Home Depot) lots of things like grass seed (for the areas in the back which are now dirt .. thanks beagles) and grass fertilizer (using save.ca coupons of course). We also took advantage of their buy 3 get one free deal with annuals. That DOES go against my beliefs though as I personally think annuals are a waste of money.. why buy something that only lasts a year? Buy perennials and get the joys every spring right through the fall! They are a lot cheaper though, so we bought some to put in some planters and give a lot of areas some color. I guess spending $20 or $40 on annuals isn’t such a bad thing if you’re going to get 4-6 good months out of it.
Between Liz and I, we spend likely over $100 this weekend on garden/yard items. Fortunately, these items will get lots of use and most of the we’ll use for years to come. Things like a solid dirt rake, a hand seed spreader, shady grass seed, grass fertilizer as I mentioned, and tons and tons of flowers and vegetables. I toned it down this year to only 6 or so Tomato plants – but we also have some cucumbers, broccoli and turnip which I’m sure we’ll get good use out of. Personally I’d rather have spent the money on some much needed Kingston Memory (2 Gigs) for my computer which is getting awfully sluggish but I won’t go there.
I don’t have much else to say right now, but I wanted to just put this post out there as I’m going to write more on the gardens outside once things start taking off so that I can look back and find out when I planted things for future use. I hope everyone had a great weekend and I’ve got some great post ideas coming up which I can’t wait to start writing.
Have a great night folks!