My first visit to the new place. Very nice - I like the extra ability to display comments without having to open up the post comments box. I wouldn't worry so much about archives. They're nice to have but blogs are so focused on the current and now (like the internet) that it's rare for others to look them up. If you get in the habit of saving a web page that shows all of your posts for a month, then you'll have them for your own historical (or hysterical) purposes.

My wife got tired of seeing more weeds than she could put up with in one small garden plot in the front yard. Today she dug it all up (I think she'll just let it go to grass) and came up with over 400 bulbs. I don't know what she will do with them all, and it's a shame I can't toss some your way.

Are they any good in soup, or maybe on a skewer for the grill after you marinate them?

Four hundred bulbs! That's most impressive. My favorite weed control is a good ground cover in my flower beds (mostly vinca minor and creeping phlox). I still have some weeds, but that crowds out a lot of them.

I have uncontrollable weed problems too. My question is, if you find a groud cover robust enough to choke out weeds, how do you keep it from choking out the stuff you want? I love my morning glories and my wild sweet peas, but they don't play well with others (though they haven't choked out my weeds, either).

Both the phlox and the vinca are pretty "grow-through-able" which means they don't choke out every weed, but they do take up space and shade the ground making some weeds less inclined to start anything. Plus, if you have a bunch of green stuff already covering the flowerbed, the weeds aren't as noticeable. At least that's what I tell myself, and I like groundcover a lot better than mulch in general.

Vinca is pretty agressive at spreading though, so I only have it beds where I can contain it.

I would love to plant bulbs in my space but I have no idea how to go about it. My mom should be here in September, maybe she can help? I am sadly remiss in the plants department despite growing up the daughter of an avid and skilled gardener. Two, in fact, although my dad is into veggies and my mom flowers. Oh, well. :) Perhaps a little of it came through?

Bulbs, especially daffodils and allium (and other relatives of the onion) that critters don't like to eat, are the easiest gardening you can do. You stick them in the ground in the fall, preferably with a little bonemeal or bulb booster, though they usually do fine without, and wait for them to show up in the Spring. Then as long as you don't cut off the greenry after the flowers die, most of them will be back for a long, long time.

I sometimes wish I could garden exclusively with bulbs.

Daffodils. We hateses them.

Why?

Why? Probably has something to do with the 7+ years we lived on bulb farms - growing daffodils.

FYI, when you cut them to display, be careful not to get the juice from the stem on your bare hands/arms. Some folks are allergic and it causes them to break out in a rash somewhat similar to poison oak or ivy. I tell ya, the things you learn without really trying...

Oh, and how come I have to keep entering my stuff for comments? It doesn't seem to be creating a cookie.

Must be a MT thing - I have the same problem at Susanna's place.

Oh yes, I had forgotten about your bulb raising days. Did you ever raise any pink ones?

And fortunately for me, I must not be allergic because I've picked 'em plenty of times barehanded. I'll pass that along to others though.

No, no pink ones. We did raise some yellow iris though.

Oh, that was not a nice thing to do, Jordana. I was trying to control my irrational bulb planting this year but now the order is being prepared! And it's not hard to end up with 400 bulbs (especially daffodils). When I divided an overgrown patch, I was getting about 30 new bulbs for each one I planted. Maybe I should have started a bulb farm instead of a tree farm. The payback would be quicker.

I hope you'll tell us what you ordered, Earth Girl.

I know I'll wind up buying a few things at Lowes later on. This is only the first wave.