It is important to have goals for the future. We sometimes get hung up on them having to be big, important things though. It’s ok to have little goals too! One of my goals for the future, is simply to have flowers to look at next Spring.
Ridiculously simple? Yes. Inexpensive? Also yes. How happy am I going to be though, when my little bulbs start sprouting in the Spring??? It will be like a tiny little present that Past Kathryn sent me.
With the work of the move, as well as how late in the year it happened, there won’t be a lot that we can get started this fall. We have a lot planned over the next few years; but it will be put in slowly, one project at a time. I honestly debated not even starting the bulbs this fall, because we have plans for the places I planted them. They are pretty wild right now, and will need to be modified or weeded heavily in the future.
I hemmed and hawed over the little packets of bulbs, and then I thought: Why am I considering not doing this? I would pay this much for a bouquet of flowers that I only get to enjoy for a week. So what if I risk losing a few bulbs when we reconfigure things next year? It will be worth it to have flowers outside of my front door.
I don’t really have pictures of where I planted my bulbs. In all honesty they were dug in between weeds and grass. (I need their roots to hold my soil in place until Spring, our property is very hilly). I tried to make my planting sites look like I hadn’t disturbed the soil, in attempt to save my little bulbs from squirrels.
I do have one little section that looks a bit like a garden though! Some of my Egyptian walking onions sprouted in transport. I figured that I might as well plant them since they won’t make it until Spring indoors. I dug out a little strip and mulched them with leaves. It is later in the year than I would normally plant things, but it was worth a try in this case.
We’ll have to wait until Spring to see what comes up!
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