its gardenin' time!

in case you were wondering how many locally grown [mostly organic] seedlings $50 buys you at the farmer's market... now you know.  

i supplemented with another $25 at home depot and probably about $20 of miscellaneous seeds.  which brings my garden grand total to... more than i want to think about. 

but look!  i mowed finally!  after it took me about 20 minutes and a neighbor to figure out how to open the damn gas can so i could go buy gas...  but i digress.  shit's planted!!!  and now the battle with punsxatawny phil [and his neighborhood gang of groundhog thugs] begins.  i saw a large one waddling through someone's yard the other day but didnt think much of it.  but as i was planting bulbs yesterday [in the other bed] 3 different neighbors stopped by to tell me they had seen a groundhog poking around in the beds.  PREPARE FOR BATTLE. 

in other news.  here is what i planted:

and juuuust as i was done planting and daydreaming about my future adirondack chairs in the freshly cut grass, my neighbor [the wife of the guy who helped me move all the dirt] popped by to offer some perennials.  she apparently supplies the whole street with plant split-offs, cuttings, and master gardening advice.  unfortunately, they are moving sometime this summer.  sigh.

here is what she gave me and the random locations they ended up in: