I cranked up the little red tiller this afternoon - the one that the nephew-in-law fixed last weekend - and tilled up a new flower bed along the driveway.
When I started, I was just aiming to till up a little spot to put the zinnias. As the tilled spot got bigger and bigger, I realized that my dirt was going to wash off the hill, so I pulled out some landscape things my sister gave me and made a fence to hold the dirt. Aaaaannnd it needed more dirt. A wheelbarrow full of dirt from an abandoned flower bed wasn't enough to halfway level the new bed on the hillside. This called for a trip to the garden center to get more dirt. I ended up spending the rent money on new plants.
I got blue salvia, a hollyhock, a homestead verbena, an aster, and a couple of other things I can't remember.
Those pitiful, water-logged zinnias may not make it. I just scooped them out of the box with a trowel and set them on the dirt.
After I watered everything, I sprinkled the rest of the pack of zinnia seeds, and the rest of a pack of larkspur seeds over the whole bed. Oh, and a pack of bachelors buttons.
We'll see what survives.
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