plant a garden

I started a sort of mini garden today =] since i’m still living in an apartment complex it’s pretty impossible for me to have a real garden at the moment, but I do have a couple of pots with some herbs[mint, chives, and coriander at the moment] on a book shelf by the window. I’m so excited for these little babies to start growing!

flowers and veggies!
it would be cool to do my favorite vegetables, like potatoes, and carrots, and peanuts!

One day when I own a house, I want to plant a beautiful garden in front of it with plenty of blossoms in the spring time. Don’t forget to take time to smell the roses!

I helped my mom plant a garden in our back yard.

There are two reasons why I don’t usually plant a garden:

1) I rent. It’s tough to plant a garden and then have to leave it behind.

2) I have a black thumb. I can kill plants at 30 paces with one Medusa-like glare. (Actually, it’s because I forget to water them.)

I can see the writing on the wall, though. Food prices are going up, and it would help our overall bottom line (not to mention the other goal of getting out of debt) if we could grow some fresh produce, even if it’s nothing more than some tomatoes and zucchini in containers.

So i have a roof and lots of pots.
It’s sort of a garden.
I’m growing all sorts fruit, veg and flowers. They all seam to be doing well and its starting to look really ace.
Now i just have to keep the ducks from nesting in them.

Garden soil is now worked.

Next: make rows

i kill plants. I am incapable of keeping them alive. I over water or under water, I give them too much light or not enough. I dont know what it is but this is not a natural talent of mine. However I love plants. I love how they look. I want them in my home, on my pool deck and all over my yard. I want palm trees, I want ornamental grasses, I want flowers and i want herbs. I dont know where to start. I bought some grasses in containors and have them pool side. So far they are surviving…we will see.

Friday I’m heading to the nursery to buy my plants. WEE I’m so excited!!

I started my fire escape garden last week! My plastic 12×24” planter now holds chives, parsley, and some petunias. The final addition will be one or two basil plants—it’s what I’m looking forward to the most. Mmmm pesto.

When my parents visit this weekend, my dad is bringing me a beautiful windowbox planter he’s filled with of almost a dozen varieties of flowers! I can’t wait to hang it on the fire escape railing.

My goals for my “garden” this summer are to water all the plants every morning before work (or at least check if they need it), fertilize every few weeks, and prune and pull as necessary on weekends.