On Sunday Michael and I went looking for hanging baskets for the front porch. We have one of those old-fashioned from porches that just cries out for hanging baskets.
Last year I skipped the hanging baskets, in fact, I skipped annuals all-together.
It made me sad.
So, we checked at one of those big garden centers, but their least expensive basket was $19.99, and while it looked nice, it just wasn't worth it.
I suggested checking out a Hy-Vee garden center, figuring they might have discounted some of their flowers by now. They had a row of raggedy-looking, somewhat beleaguered, hanging baskets marked down to $9.99.
Now, it was good they were marked down, but they were definitely not worth $10 a piece.
I urged Michael to go ahead and ask the manager if he would take any more off the price, afterall, they were pretty ratty.
Without hesitation, he offered to sell them to us for $5 a piece.
Yippee!
I chose the best looking of the bunch and left with 4 hanging baskets for $20. Hopefully the baskets themselves won't break this year so I can replant them next spring for next-to-nothing.
I guess it never hurts to ask...
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We've hit triple digits temps all week, so our garden is struggling to not burn up -- poor garden.
The tomatoes, of course, are doing fabulously -- they thrive on this scorching weather.
Our carrots are not getting as big as we hoped, but they're doing okay -- it's our first year to have carrots, so they are trial and error.
Only five of the fifteen corn plants grew like they should've -- the corn is nearly ready to pick (first year for us to have corn), so we're curious to find out how this particular variety tastes.
I pulled up our lettuces a couple weeks ago -- it was getting too hot for them. But they grew like gangbusters for a good long while. We'll definitely have more lettuces next spring.
Our yellow squash turned out weird -- will have to google to find out what was up. We grow squash most every year and this was the first time we had them turn out weird (very thick-skinned and dry inside).
Our pole snapbeans were a dud, but we're trying some pinto beans now.
Our broccoli and cabbage never did anything. The broccoli each made less than a floret, and the cabbage just never formed heads of cabbage.
We know what we'll not try again next year, which things we'll plant more of, etc. Lots of trial and error and experimenting this spring!!
Yup, the worst that anyone can say is no - and often they'll say yes :-) Good deal!
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