Speed Shopping At Home Depot

This morning my husband had told me he would take me to Home Depot. I got the boys all dressed up and ready for a Home Depot field trip. In the car he announced that he would stay in the car with the boys, while I went in to shop. My husband is a very impatient man, but I agreed, and fortunately I had a list of what I was looking for.

With me I had a $25 gift card from GSN.com, and I was ready to shop. While I went speed shopping through Home Depot, my eyes went in many different directions, and I could easily have spent $100. I brought my calculator though, as I wanted to make sure to get as close to the $25 as possible.

I wanted to get some flowers, but I ended up deciding against it, since sweet Tory just sent me tons of morning glory seeds. I wanted to get some herbs, but they sure were expensive, and so were the tomato plants. I have a couple of small tomato plants growing already, so I decided I would just get lots of seeds.

This is what I got:

Seeds for:

Pepper Carnival mix

Green onions

Cherry tomatoes

Parsley

Chives

Cilantro

Lavender

Oregano

Lettuce

Lupines

Dianthus mix

This summer I killed off my bathroom flowers. When I was in the hospital the flower in the one bathroom died (out of sight out of mind), and not long after my son decided to water the other one with soap water. I tried to save the last one, but even with new dirt it was too late. I therefore picked up a new indoor plant that I can split up between the two bathrooms.

I had about five dollars left on the card, and I decided to head over to the orchid table. I always go buy and admire, but they are always out of my price range. Well, today I picked up one small orchid that was getting way too big for it's little pot. It cost $4.99, and I think it will be a beautiful addition to our little garden.

Thanks to my calculator, I only had to pay 9 cents out of pocket. If it had not been for the calculator, I would definitely have overspent.

I did not do much gardening this summer since I had a huge belly for the first part of the summer, and for the last part it was way too hot and the baby kept me indoors.

My husband did help me out a bit with doing some weeding and replanting in the beds though, and here is the result.

Above is two lonely aloe vera plants. They are getting enormous. Last winter/spring they actually blossomed, which is the first time I have ever seen this. (do you see the lizard on the right aloe plant?

Below is three pineapple plants. My husband said he accidentally broke off part of the oldest one, when he was moving it. The biggest one in the middle is about 14 months, and we are hoping it will soon bear fruit. The one to the right is about six months old, and the pineapple plant to the left is about two months old. Publix has pineapples for sale this week, so we will probably have another plant to add in a month or so.

In June I planted a mango pit from our beautiful huge mango tree. The little tree is growing very fast.

After a long HOT summer, I cannot wait to start planting, but it is still way too hot outside. Hopefully it will cool down a bit this evening, so I can get some of the planting started.