Trying Again
Every year when the weather starts turning warmer, I get these notions of suddenly transforming into a super green-thumb, organic, one-with-the-dirt Mother Earth. It never really evolves into anything more than me buying some flats and sticking plants into a pot, but this year I really had visions. Do you know how many gardening ideas there are on Pinterest, guys? I was going to grow lemon seeds in a coffee cup and then turn vintage wine crates (??) into an herb garden on my deck. Forget that I never cook anything and would never use any herbs at any point, for anything, ever. It would be the best.
So my starting point was strawberries, because I love strawberries, and they sell little growing pots everywhere, with "GUARANTEED TO GROW" on the packaging. Awesome. I really don't know how it went wrong.
I watered the dirt. I planted the seeds (gently). I lovingly transferred the pot from indoors to outdoors depending on the probability of sun and rain. I even nagged Michael to move it around for me while I was at work. And then, lo-and-behold, one tiny strawberry plant broke through towards the light.
He then immediately withered and died.
But I'm not letting this keep me from my obvious future as a greenhouse keeper. This time I cheated and bought strawberry seedlings. It's like getting a toddler instead of a newborn.
And one of them already has a teeny tiny green strawberry-looking thing hanging from it. I might as well set up my roadside fruit stand.
So my starting point was strawberries, because I love strawberries, and they sell little growing pots everywhere, with "GUARANTEED TO GROW" on the packaging. Awesome. I really don't know how it went wrong.
I watered the dirt. I planted the seeds (gently). I lovingly transferred the pot from indoors to outdoors depending on the probability of sun and rain. I even nagged Michael to move it around for me while I was at work. And then, lo-and-behold, one tiny strawberry plant broke through towards the light.
He then immediately withered and died.
But I'm not letting this keep me from my obvious future as a greenhouse keeper. This time I cheated and bought strawberry seedlings. It's like getting a toddler instead of a newborn.
And one of them already has a teeny tiny green strawberry-looking thing hanging from it. I might as well set up my roadside fruit stand.