Gardening 2008
Finally. Sprout does gardening. It finally makes sense now. With the lack of much to do after my 9-5, I decided to purchase a hoe. Actually, a friend bought me the hoe– a token of her affection towards my graduation. She believed that just renting a hoe would have been awfully too dirty and unsafe(and I no longer have health insurance to boot).
After leading a helping hand to my best friend and her cute little herb garden, I took to my backyard with that hoe. The first strike mind you was in 100 degree weather.. needless to say it took me like 4 days to finish digging up the grass (with a little bit of help of course). For a minute, my friendly little helper wanted to put an end to the gardening idea and continue digging for coal. She was overly excited to find coal particles in my backyard. They don’t call it the diamond city for no good reason now do they?!
Now, I planted the garden Sun from LOST style.. I made a plot of dirt and then I planted in rows. No stakes, no mulch.. well there was some fertilizing soil from Lowes happening. For some reason, I went with these starter plants:
1. Early Girl Tomatoes
2. Sweet 100’s
3. Red and green bell peppers
4. Hot banana peppers
5. Japs
6. Zucchini Squash
I like eating all these delicious items, so that was really my only reason behind the madness. It’s been 2 weeks since I planted them. My bell peppers are starting to peak up (is that the correct terminology I don’t know?) and my tomatos plants are sprouting out of control. I suppose this means I should build a stake around them. I also have a cute white picket fence in the works.