My decision to plant a garden went something like this…
“Hmm, there’s an established place in my backyard for a garden.”
That was pretty much it. I didn’t really like my family’s garden as a kid and I don’t really like weeding, watering, or picking, so obviously it made sense to plant a garden.
In any case, I killed the overgrown weeds with Roundup, shoveled and hoed the dirt around and over itself, and then procrastinated. Luckily, my awesome mom came to the rescue and planted a garden for me. Carrots, lettuce, spinach, beets (for herself, beets are sick), bell pepper plants, and tomato plants. The raspberry bush was already there. Unfortunately, I didn’t pick the raspberries before they all shriveled up and died so the bush retaliated and stopped producing. Reminds me, I need to call that girl back before too long.
Pearls of wisdom from Mom and I:
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My fresh cherry tomatos are the best ever.
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Don’t plant your tomato plants too close to each other, they grow.
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Don’t plant your bell pepper plants too close to the tomato plants, they’ll be covered. One of mine died and we moved the other one to save the one pepper it grew.
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Tomato plants smell awesome.
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Thin your carrots like it says to on the seed packet so that they have room to grow. I don’t know how many of mine will even be large enough to be called matter.
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I don’t know what happened to the spinach, it got tall and seedy and not leafy and then died.
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If you till your soil, plant a garden, water it, weed it, prune it, and pick it, you get to eat fresh organic food you raised yourself! It’s really very cool and not too hard because you force your mom to do the work.
It annoys me that Derek and Sara always have their cute little suburban yard perfectly groomed so I spent 3 days completely weeding my overgrown garden for these final photos. Take that! Ninja style! Hyaw!
Once again, never disappointed. Even if you were to ever have a post that is as bad as the current one on EB’s site I’d still entertain myself for minutes at a time, moving the mouse back and forth over the easter egg as fast as possible.
derek | September 20th, 2007 at 3:38 pm |But whats with you catching the home improvement bug? I don’t get it at all. Now where’s my hammock…..
Ha, magic is all about illusions.
Underclown | September 20th, 2007 at 4:52 pm |I feel like I’ve gone into the past..
derek | October 7th, 2007 at 6:12 pm |That’s one good lookin’ Ho.
Marty | October 31st, 2007 at 10:39 am |Er…
HoE.
Marty | October 31st, 2007 at 10:40 am |