Let's just say that I've harvested 1 strawberry, 1 zucchini, a handful of tomatoes (Shelagh eats those from the plant so who knows how many and most of those didn't make it to ripe stage before she gobbled them up), 1 small bunch of red leaf lettuce, and a plethora of my perennial herbs (thyme, chives).
Here's what didn't even make it to provide 1 measly little product...
1) Peppers - plant was green, but nothing looking like a flower or vegetable - 2nd year in a row
2) Sugar Snap Peas - pathetically dried up and never grew
3) Cucumbers, Zucchini, Squash - Seriously???? How much of an idiot am I to not be able to grow these runaway vegetables???
4) 1 onion plant and 1 garlic - these have been in the ground for 2-3 years now b/c I just haven't pulled them up. Someone told me to pull them when the sprouts above ground die. That came and went. Oh well again.
4) Basil, Dill, Parsley - all shriveled died
5) Hanging baskets of flowers - twice I tried these this summer. Both horribly brown and dead.
6) Potted flowers (4) - front and back of the house - all dead.
What I'm left with is a small garden plot with fresh black mulch, wimpy tipped-over and brown semi-plants, runaway strawberry plants, runaway thyme and chives, and a huge rock pit (a la Parks and Recreation, if you watched this past year).
I have a toxic thumb. I want so bad to have a nice little garden, but I don't want to water, weed, or pay any attention to it. Is that so difficult to accommodate???
*** finding the entertainment in everyday life ***
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Hi Sena-
We have a great garden here in Braintree, but I can't cook to save my life! Nor do my kids enjoy the crop. Wished we lived closer.
I'll grow. You cook!
Kara
Now that's a plan!! However I do recall you making a fantastic dip at your last supper club that I inhaled!
Sena, I'm getting a gardening book to read at leisure over the winter. I, too, had failed cukes & zuch. One cucumber, 2 zucchini. Basil with pale, yellowish-green leaves. One tomato plant out of three that produced tomatoes. I think I need to educate myself. Lisa
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