I'm doing my best to change my plant killing ways. My one houseplant has been alive for a good six months now, and the orchid that my sweetheart gave me is still blooming beautifully more than two months later.
For most of my life, I've never had much of an inclination towards gardening, but in recent months that has been changing. Suddenly I'm obsessed with the idea of creating things in my kitchen that I grew in my yard. Although really, we're growing them in the sweetheart's yard, but nonetheless, I am helping make it happen, and this is a first for me. A very exciting first. There will be tomatoes and squash and arugula and herbs - nothing terribly ambitious, but to me it's a veritable cornucopia.
Today my small contribution amounted to a little weeding and clearing away of the old stuff, plus some turning over the soil with the shovel. I know it just looks like dirt in the photo, but damnit, it's dirt that I lovingly shoveled myself! And it's way more gardening than I've ever done in the past.
And I can't take credit for this part, but when the day was done, this is what it looked like:
I can't wait to watch it grow and to learn all I can along the way!
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