Garden!
I don't know if things are going to get better any time soon. I really don't. But I'm trying to be better, OK with things. So here's a happy post I posted in myspace, and now here. Maybe I'll be able to grab a ditigal camera sometime soon.
I have a garden, and it makes me excited. I dragged myself outside the other night and did some gardening. Unfortunately most, if not all, of the native plants had died (plus maybe the scarlet bean runners), since in my depression, I hadn't planted them into the ground- in addition to not watering any of them (native or crop) for a few days. Also, since I hadn't watered them, all the plants had at least started to wilt.
So I mulched every crop, watered every plant, put up some fences to protect from the dogs upstairs and feral animals wandering in the alleys. Unfortunately 2 crop plants (a corn and a watermelon) died, victim to Michelle's mowing. However, one corn stalk is already up to my knee, and the other two are doing well. The other watermelon vine hasn't seemed to change much since I put it in, who knows what up with that?
The tomato plants are all doing very well. I believe there's 9 tomato plants? Three cherries and various other ones (including "zebra green" and an amish variety, "brandywine"- which I'm very excited about). There are 2 zucchini plants, an eggplant, a cayenne pepper plant, 2 bell pepper plants, I believe one other spicy-ish pepper that's not cayenne and 3 cucumbers (ones that are specially grown for pickling!).
It's the first time I've had a garden and it makes me very excited. It's especially important to me because I've been really, really depressed lately and some friends broke into my house leaving me all these plants they obtained to cheer me up. Does anybody else garden? I feel somewhat inadequate, but it still makes me happy. :)
I have a garden, and it makes me excited. I dragged myself outside the other night and did some gardening. Unfortunately most, if not all, of the native plants had died (plus maybe the scarlet bean runners), since in my depression, I hadn't planted them into the ground- in addition to not watering any of them (native or crop) for a few days. Also, since I hadn't watered them, all the plants had at least started to wilt.
So I mulched every crop, watered every plant, put up some fences to protect from the dogs upstairs and feral animals wandering in the alleys. Unfortunately 2 crop plants (a corn and a watermelon) died, victim to Michelle's mowing. However, one corn stalk is already up to my knee, and the other two are doing well. The other watermelon vine hasn't seemed to change much since I put it in, who knows what up with that?
The tomato plants are all doing very well. I believe there's 9 tomato plants? Three cherries and various other ones (including "zebra green" and an amish variety, "brandywine"- which I'm very excited about). There are 2 zucchini plants, an eggplant, a cayenne pepper plant, 2 bell pepper plants, I believe one other spicy-ish pepper that's not cayenne and 3 cucumbers (ones that are specially grown for pickling!).
It's the first time I've had a garden and it makes me very excited. It's especially important to me because I've been really, really depressed lately and some friends broke into my house leaving me all these plants they obtained to cheer me up. Does anybody else garden? I feel somewhat inadequate, but it still makes me happy. :)