One of Mama Kat's Writer's Workshop prompts this week is about gardening, and it just so happens that we just did some planting.
Like, literally, just did, on Sunday and Monday.
Besides growing some herbs in a whiskey barrel, this is the very first gardening I've ever done. Heck, who am I kidding? Mark did the whiskey barrel, not me.
So this is the very first gardening I've ever done.
'Cause I have never had a green thumb. I'm serious. Every plant anyone has ever given me, I've killed.
But that's all going to change! Because now, for some reason unknown to me, I care.
I wonder if it's age. Or maturity, Patience, maybe?
In my Listicle last week I put gardening on my list of things I'd spend extra money on if I had it.
If you blog it, they will respond!
My Aunt Renee read that post and said to herself, "I can help Jen with that!" And so she did. She has some mad gardening connectionz (and skillz), yo!
So, one of the things I've been wanting is a decorative planter bed out front. This is what my Aunt helped us with.
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| Getting ready and getting started... |
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| We have a bed and some plants in the ground... |
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| Get the mess outta there and top it off with some pretty dirt... |
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| Add a couple hanging planters to the porch, and there you have it! |
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| We have a bigger space to the right of this where another planter will go. |
I have a lot to learn, but I'm finally interested. I still don't get why, what changed.
The kids had fun rescuing worms from the cut up sod and throwing them back into the dirt! One worm got lost on the driveway and died. Poor worm.
Thank you, Auntie!
Nicely done Jen!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your garden! It's looking good already!
ReplyDeleteThank you. I'll need it!
DeleteI have never been able to grow anything. I've always referred to it as having a brown thumb instead of a green one.
ReplyDeleteI kill all plants that I touch. . .
Or at least I used to.
Since we moved into this house, it has two flower beds out front. And I weeded them and cared for them. . . And surprisingly, didn't kill anything.
Your decorative front beds look really nice!
What are you planning to plant in the back?
Edible stuff!
DeleteLooks great! I have a tendency to kill plants, as well, but I've had some luck this summer with herbs in pots. No luck with advanced landscaping, though. I need an aunt :)
ReplyDeleteI miss gardening since I began blogging, it's so hard to do it all. It's a lot of work as you can already tell and I can see in the photos. Good luck with it and look forward to seeing more photos.
ReplyDeleteIt IS a lot of work!
DeleteI like gardening, I dislike the upkeep. My flower beds used to look nice, and then I had kids. And really there are more important things than weeding the garden. Or that's what I tell myself. But really I hate weeding. Your's looks great though, can your aunt come help me? :)
ReplyDeleteI love it!! You did such a great job. So many plants!!! I would love an herb garden...maybe next year!
ReplyDeleteIt seems an herb garden is one of the easiest things.
DeleteI desperately want to be a gardener....but I've killed every potted plant I've ever owned so I worry about investing shitloads of money...but I have this vision of picking my own salad out of the yard and having gorgeous flowers everywhere...
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