How Does Your Garden Grow?

This afternoon we planted a bag of crocus bulbs that I'd bought a couple of weeks ago at one of the warehouse clubs. An impulse purchase which was not too expensive and definitely not unhealthy...

There were 121 bulbs. Son #3 counted. One more than advertised! Gotta celebrate these little victories. We had a lovely assembly line going. I cut out the beginning of the trench with the post hole digger (the border of the front garden) and Son #2 followed with the spade to get the right depth. Son #3 dug out the excess dirt. I popped the bulbs in the ground every so often, behind them as they were working. Number One Son joined us after a little while and began to cover the bulbs with dirt, weeding as he worked. After the last bulbs went into the ground, I took the youngest with me to get a couple of bags of soil to cover everything well. While we were gone, the other two finished putting back the dirt, cleaned up the tools and weeds, and did the first watering. We'll put the soil down later. In a little while we're going to visit friends who are on LI this weekend (they live in Massachusetts) along with their whole family, also our friends.

I told the dad that the kids earned a trip to get ices after dinner, if he feels like buying.