Curses!

I should know better.  I really should!  My husband got a call from a neighbor up the street a couple of months back.  He'd been doing something in his yard and had a bunch of extra dirt.  He asked if we wanted it.  We have exceptional dirt in our neighborhood, no clay, but not too sandy.  It's a nice loamy perfect balance, so I don't usually object to something like that.

Today, I find these growing out from the pile.  Grape Hyacinth.  Really?  I've gone to great lengths to avoid these like the plague, and have managed to do just that for more than a decade in two homes.  They multiply more quickly than rabbits on steroids!  They look so weedy (after the short bloom time) and are so hard to get rid of!  So, now I have a huge pile of someone elses dirt, and every teaspoon of it will go through my pasta strainer.

Happy Gardening!