Our wives and daughters (The Garden Gals) have been busy laying out the garden. Now, don’t get us wrong, they don’t know where most stuff is going, but they’ve been in heavy parleys (Pirates of the Caribbean is a beary edumakational series of films) on how to fit everything they want to grow into the garden.

We’ve also been told that booboos were made last year. Bearbeenna (Verbana) and moonflowers like water, but Butterfly Bushes don’t. All three plants were putteded in the same pot. They all survived the summer, but it was hard to water the flowers on the outside of the pot, without watering the bush as often. It’s also hard to figure out how much room a plant’s roots need, and how much room it will take up when it grows up and out. Our gals have been trying to s’plain why all that stuff is important, but, well, sometimes it’s just too much stuff for us to remember. Our gardening experts laugheded when we admitted that. They have the same problem, so we don’t feel so dumb anymore.

Well, it was cloudy out this afternoon, but since it wasn’t raining, it was time to finish planting the stuff from Burpees, and do what Valentine, the lead Garden Gal ‘cuz she’s bunny rabbit, likes mostest this early in the season – sowing lettuce seeds!

We addeded ‘nuff compost and soil into the containers where our gals carefully placed the perennials. Something didn’t like the taste of the perennials, but bites were taken from all of them.

While we moved soil out of long containers to clean them properly, (the Garden Gals tell us that cleaning stops the plants from getting sick), they trimmed the pretty grass and pulled out old ParCel to add as mulch. They say herbs that have a big good smell will stop small city animals from wanting to dig near it. They put some of the old bird netting on the rest of the newly planted containers, to stop the digging, too.

By the time they were done, we had two, beary long containers ready for lettuce seeds. After the Gals carefully sowed the seeds, we broughteded them in to our front porch to protect them, just a little, from freezing nights and a lot from slugs. When they get big enough that animals won’t dig in them, we’ll take them out back.