From now on, I am no longer allowed to have any more container gardens. None! My stupid tomatoes refused to give up and accept that winter was coming, and when I went out tonight to do my laundry I noticed that one of them was blooming. Stupid, stupid tomato! So of course my silly sentimental self felt bad about leaving them outside to die and ( Read more... )

It's been almost three weeks since my last gardenspam, and look at how they've grown:

( I might get to eat something soon! )

Every once in a while someone will find it necessary to ask me "Why don't you move out of Hyde Park?" People just don't seem to understand the charm of this neighborhood (when you ignore everything having to do with the University...) I never really had a good summation of why I feel so at home here. I pretend that it has to do with it being a ( Read more... )

1) The lemon balm and mint I had last year are sprouting leaves in my back porch planter. I wasn't expecting anything to come back, since I was pretty sure my back porch was deadly for plants. Hooray for being lazy and not pulling things up when they died back last year! (I also have a giant mango seed I want to try to germinate, but I kind of ( Read more... )