Yesterday, I shared with you a little ironing board I created from a t.v. table. When that project was complete, I came in to work on a pen-pal basket for my daughter. So many times my daughter writes letters to her precious little pen-pal and it takes me forever to get them in the mail simply because I keep forgetting to put an address on the envelope and put it in the mail. It finally occurred to me to make a basket of supplies for her to prepare her own letters to go in the mail. I am currently without a computer that works with my printer, so I just printed some labels by hand and added them to a small basket with a few envelopes and stamps. Now, addressing and stamping an envelope is as easy as putting on two stickers! Hopefully, now, her sweet pen-pal won't have to wait so long between letters- at least on my part!
After finishing that project, our family headed out of town to run a few errands. Upon visiting a garden center, I simply could not resist the urge to buy tomato plants and a basil plant. The thought of going through the summer here in the south without my own tomatoes was killing me! What true southerner does that??? I didn't have a clue what I would do with them when I got home, but I just had to have them! I looked at a few pots, but I couldn't justify spending $20 a pot for tomato plants I didn't have to have. I decided I was just going to have to make a garden. Do you ever feel sad over the appearance of your garden? Well, I can just about guarantee your garden looks better than mine. I know because mine isn't really a garden at all. Since last summer I have begged for raised beds. I have begged for tilled ground. I have begged for the tiller to be cranked so I could try till up the ground myself and prepare it for planting...something, anything...just something somewhere where I could plant something! Sigh....Planting season has found me with no place to plant my new tomato and basil plants or the little seedlings I have babied for weeks. Now, you have to understand I don't have a green thumb whatsoever! I have the worst brown thumb you have ever seen. I am doing good to keep the hair growing on my head! For me to have taken seeds from a vegetable I ate and to have grown actual plants was nothing short of a miracle! I simply could not let my plants, bought or grown myself, sit and die. With my son's tiny little trowel in my hand, I picked a spot in my backyard and started digging a hole. There! There is where my garden found itself. No tilling and turning of soil, no soil amendments. Nothing but a hole dug in the weeds. Then another hole and another hole, and another hole until I had ten tomato plants, two garlic plants, a basil plant, and twenty one pepper plants in their new home in the weedy plot of ground I deemed a garden. I planted the vegetables after I planted the ten snapdragons I started from seeds in an appropriate place in the flower beds. My husband did feel sorry for me when I got down to the last few pepper plants and stabbed myself with the trowel. He pulled out the mattock and dug the last few holes so I could more quickly get the rest of the plants in the ground. That was a good thing since it was getting dark and he was grilling a delicious steak! This is what I ended up with. *Warning! The following images may be disturbing to some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised!*
What's that you said? You can't see the plants? Don't feel bad. You are not alone. It takes me a few minutes to find them too! :) Look a little closer.
There is the basil, and if you look carefully, you may be able to see a couple of tomato plants.
It's sad. I know. Painful actually. I warned you, though! Here. Take a peek at a few of the peppers, and the torture will be over.
Anybody want to come get rid of weeds? :)
Please share your garden success with me! I would love to see them or at least hear about them! Even if mine can't be beautiful, I can appreciate those that are! It gives me hope for next year!
Until we meet again, may you be blessed!
Your garden is lovely because you toiled over it and started the seeds. :) No further comments needed. I wrote what I needed to in my text to you :) LOL!
ReplyDeleteI love you to pieces! Sniffle, sniffle. ;)
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