Cheap Gardening Part II: Bulbs

Fall bulbs really bring out the cheapskate in me.  They also shout out childhood parables involving delayed gratification:  You reap what you sow, long after the sowing.

This year, I am living the parable.  I returned from Costco and McGuckins with:

• 200 muscali (grape hyacinth) bulbs
• 200 daffodills bulbs
• 36 iris bulbs
• 20 narsicus bulbs
• 10 allium bulbs

We (I) have worked hard.  John dug one very deep hole.  The girls laid the first 100 into the ground, but have long since bailed.  I keep planting, with the promise beauty down the road.  Or possibly winter food for the squirrels.