Sunday we turned another 18 cubic feet of mushroom compost into the garden (15 bags that we bought at Home Depot in the morning and the 3 that we had left over from Saturday morning's purchase). I watered the beds a couple of times and Dave watered the beds a couple of times. The whole thing took about 5 hours (x2 since we both worked on it) spread over 3-4 days. But it's done! The prep work anyway.
Of course the big chain garden centers like Home Depot is selling every plant under the sun, but the local greenhouses (AGRA and Plants of the Southwest) are much more limited in their selections, and that has made us more conservative about our purchases this year. Aside from the snappies and the stocks I bought at AGRA, we have purchased no bedding plants so far. (We still have tons of seeds from last year, though our storage of them has been less than ideal, so I wonder if they're still mostly viable.)
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