Gardening

When I was a kid living in Louisiana, we had a small garden that mostly just grew herbs and maybe cucumbers, but I thought it was a lot of fun. During our two years in Houston, we had an even tinier garden and the only thing I remember growing there is some kind of weird lemon squash that was inedible (and was planted accidentally?), although one day we had a great time digging moats and roads in it and then adding water.

In Laurel we had a huge garden out of necessity (using the square foot gardening method) and my liking of gardening diminished when I had to weed it....

Jason likes gardening, too, so this year we went all out, or at least as "all out" as you can with a balcony instead of backyard. (Maybe not as all out as you can go -- sometimes i do a google image search for "balcony gardens" and that always turns up amazing results.)

We started early this spring with ordering a set of herb seeds & pots from Johnny's Seeds online. Jason had to remind me a few times before i finally got around to planting them. And they started to sprout just at a time when I needed the encouragement of little green plants budding up.

Once it got warm enough, we also bought tomato plants and a red geranium and then when those seemed to be doing well, went to K-Mart and filled up a cart with a couple basil plants, thyme (the basil & thyme we grew from seed never made it past sprout stage...I do not exactly have a green thumb with everything!), a strawberry plant, cayenne peppers, a jalapeño, lavender, savory, and some flowers, plus a rosemary plant from Trader Joe's. All of which, amazingly, are still alive.


That's pretty much my new theory on gardening -- if something fails, go to K-Mart and buy more for cheap! And the more plants you have, the more likely you are to succeed.