Thursday, June 26, 2014

I Have a Garden!

Plants and I have never really been friends. Sure, I appreciate their existence and all, and they're nice to look at most of the time, but we were pretty much mutually oblivious. That is, until I got my first place and decided I was going to have houseplants. I went out and picked out the perfect houseplant. It was adorable and I was going to name it. I have no idea what I was going to name it because the damn thing died two weeks after I brought it home. I watered it, I swear, but somehow I couldn't keep that freaking pot of ivy alive.


I bitched and sulked for a while after that and decided to never have another plant ever again.

Yaknow, until I went to the store and saw all the adorable mini cactuses and stuff. Then I wanted a houseplant again. But I'm not completely stupid. This time, instead of getting houseplants, I opted for traditional outdoor plants.

I got a little carried away.

My yard now looks like a veritable jungle, and not just because we haven't mowed.

At the beginning of May I filled three planters with petunias (I think) and sweet potato vines:


They don't actually grow sweet potatoes, but they're nice to look at.

I also planted jalapenos....


and some other kind of pepper....


and a pot of peppermint....


and I started cilantro and dill and spearmint from seed. Two weeks later they were definitely not dead. Score!


Well, kind of. It took another month before I finally figured out the stuff in the spearmint pot wasn't so much spearmint as a very impressive weed. I went out and bought a spearmint plant instead.

Now my deck looks like this:


The seeds have gone absolutely crazy....


the mint is all splayed out and probably pissed I didn't give it a bigger pot....


and I have peppers!


So many peppers!



Also, thanks to a little Miracle Grow, the flower boxes have filled in pretty well too.


As if that wasn't enough, my roommate has also started a vegetable garden with cucumbers and corn and tomatoes and more peppers and pumpkins and mini pumpkins and funny-looking gourds. Me, I would have been totally fine with just having a giant gourd patch, but apparently that's "boring."


Even with all that greenery, I think my favorite thing in the entire yard is this piece of onion grass growing out of a cinder block.


What's growing in your yard? Do you have any ideas for all those peppers? Let me know in the comments!

2 comments:

  1. We have peppers, tomatoes, cilantro, and mint growing! My husband has quite the green thumb.

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    1. That sounds great! Do you know if the cilantro is supposed to flower?

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