re: #621 Killgore Trout

Killgore’s thrifty gardening tip of the day…..
If you have a large area that you want to cover with flowers you can buy flax seed at the supermarket for something like $1.50 a pound. You’d pay that much for 20-30 seeds in a packet at the garden center. No watering once they spout and you’ll have millions of lovely red flowers all summer long and even into late fall sometimes.

Same with taro root, found at most oriental grocers. Just a few will cover a dry or wet patch of bare earth with lacy colocasia — member of the elephant ear family. Cost about 10$ per pot at the nursery.