I kept saying it was too much work for one person, and between the goddamned crabgrass and the clover rooted in the earth’s core, it was, but I by god did it myself! My flowerbed is 20′ long by 9′ wide; it was going to be 10′, but I wanted to make sure there was enough room to get a dump truck through. Fuck crabgrass and clay, but at least the beetle grubs I found and squashed will never emerge to eat my flowers!

I went to Buchheit this morning to get 20 more bags of mulch, completely forgetting it was easter Sunday, and they were closed. I was very disappointed, but the greedy bastards at Walmart weren’t closed, so I consoled myself with four bottles of Deer-B-Gon (clearance, 50% off), and six lovely columbine plants, which were $3.33 each (regular price!) I didn’t get them planted today, but they’re in 8″ pots, so they’ll be okay until I’m not too dead to dig.

They had purple, too, but I got bright pink for MLBs.

My present to me was an overpriced Aglaonema. Not low light, but I’ve wanted this one for a while. Might be “Firecracker”.

I took a little tour of the garden, and found…a bloodroot bloom! There are more plants, but only one bloom for now. I’ll take it!

Crabapple flowers are opening, too.