I Suppose Anything is Possible...

I guess this is an actual Flower Bed? No veggies here.

One of my major deal breakers when I started this gardening business was - NO DIGGING!

Nope, not digging. In fact, if I couldn't do this easily, I wasn't going to do it at all. I feel permanently scarred from forced gardening as a youngster, lol. As much as I understand it now, I didn't then, and I HATED it. Totally and completely. Which is what led me to declare for years that I'd rather stick a hot poker in my eye than garden. (I still feel that way about yard work, btw. Thank goodness for lawn services, hehe).

I also only figured it would be worth it for the veggie return. I should eat healthier, and the hope is that, in the long run, I'll get enough from my garden for it to pay for itself. At the moment, I'm on track with that.

However, I might have, sort of, moved some dirt with my hands. No shovels were involved, I swear!

But see - Mom and I bought these clearance flowers to put on top of the 'mater plants (if you recall - see the post here:  http://hoemsteadwannabe.blogspot.com/2013/12/mater-makeover.html  )

There were some flowers left over that I've been watering. But they were still in their little plastic planter thingy. And then when I went to Lowe's the other day (to get the trellis for the peas), they had a whole shopping cart full of plants they were throwing away!

Just - throwing away! Most of them were still alive, though I will admit they didn't look all that good. I couldn't stand it though, and asked if I could have some. The girl wasn't really comfortable just giving them to me, so she sold me some. 

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I only rescued three of them. The rest... well, maybe someone else will come along. 

Anyway - here they are. I had some dirt, and dumped it into this little empty spot in front of the house. I did actually move some of the dirt out of the way to plop them all in (no actually digging!).

These are the actual three that were being thrown out. They were root bound, and had some bad leaves. Keep your fingers crossed, but I think they'll be fine.

Wish us all luck!

:)