The Scavenged Garden

Let's go outside for a moment and ponder the garden I've been planning.  I've been getting new plants and seeds, but also a few other necessaries to bring my vision together.  Here's some stuff I got FOR freaking FREE everybody!

• little plastic pots
• one of those sifters you use to get the weeds and pebbles out of your soil
• about half a dozen tomato cages
• a trowel (somebody left this in my yard last year, but I'm throwing it in the list for posterity)
• soil, abundant soil - my neighbor is terracing his front yard and said I could have the dirt.  I just have to haul it up to my yard in a bucket.  My back yard, for reasons known only to the builders of this neighborhood, is far higher than street level.  No wheelbarrow is going to work.
• I pulled up a tree sprout out of somebody's curbside plantation.  It had sprung up from a normal size tree and was still tiny so I have it in its own little planter at home until it gets big enough to go outside.  

I got my plants on the cheap, mostly.  There are a lot of seed sales going on now, and I got a few starters and sedums at Grocery Outlet.  I already have a couple rose bushes planted in the back yard, and a baby birch tree I got at Walgreens, of all places.  I'll be hitting up the farmer's markets for more plants, but in the meantime these little discount shrubs and things have to go into the ground sometime, right?  Oh yeah, I also took advantage of a Chinook Book coupon a friend gifted me, and got a mini magnolia tree and some herbs.  I just wish it would stop raining so I can plant more stuff!