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I thought I would go ahead and put up some of the pictures of the garden that Phil helped me put together. Well, help is an understatement. He practically broke his back getting the soil prepared for my baby plants. Gardening is hard work, that’s for sure. It took us the better part of two days to get the garden up and running.
Phil keeps reminding me that this whole garden idea was supposed to be a few plants on his patio, not a freaking farm. My response to him is that he shouldn’t have encouraged me as I held three greenhouses capable of holding 216 seeds(and then some) in Lowe’s one Saturday afternoon. 🙂 Everything I do, starts small and then grows into something completely uncontrollable. I know this, and so should he. It’s all a part of being Gabe and in some cases, knowing Gabe.
Phil dug and that entire plot of land and then decided that a tiller would be a good idea. We rented ours from Home Depot for four hours and it ended up costing something like $40.00. Not too bad really. And had the tiller died, I would have only had to pay $3.00. Also, not too bad.
I don’t work him hard to kill him. I work him hard to make him strong! You should have seen him working that tiller. It shook him like he was a rag doll. His muscles hurt for a week.
Ah, everything is planted. Well, the plants that would fit that is. When I took this picture, there were probably another 100 plants sitting behind me. Yes, 100.
A few weeks later . . . I was afraid that my plants might not do very well in the clay, but I think they’ve done okay. I’m sure next years crop will do even better.
This is where some of the extra plants went, but I still have some more, about another 30 or so. If you live near me and you want some tomato plants, contact me and they are all yours.
Morgan Rose Ireland Yvette DeWitter. I love my kitty! She won’t eat dry food anymore. I’ve now got to shell out the money for gourmet wet food. She’s 15 years old, she deserves it.
This is Dopple, one of Morgan’s boyfriends. She has two more that visit her pretty regularly. Dopple is an enormously fat cat that reminds me of Garfield. He’s very adorable and loves to get his belly rubbed. I just hate that he constantly tries to steal Morgan’s food.
Me. I think I look a lot like my father in this picture.
That is impressive. My thumb isn’t green at all. Plants die when I touch them.
May 22, 2008 @ 1:27 PM
@ Erick – I’ve got the plant for you then. I saw this plant at Wal-mart once that said it didn’t need dirt or water to survive. It may have even said air, but I find that impossible. Anyway, I find it difficult to kill something that doesn’t need water or dirt. Maybe you can find one and you can see just how lethal you are with plants. 🙂
May 22, 2008 @ 2:10 PM
Wow. I’d be afraid of a plant like that, and I’d probably end up murdering it in its sleep out of paranoia. Thanks for the suggestion. Maybe I’ll start with some cacti, or a weed, even.
May 22, 2008 @ 2:34 PM
it’s awesome what you’ve done back there :)i’m truly impressed i must say! and by the way I’ve got your card today. Actually It arrived on my off-day at work 😛 I’ll soon put all the recent cards on my blog tomorrow. I live in the Agean Coast of Turkey and we have palm trees here too, i don’t know what type of palms they are but some of them are really huge.thanks.
May 22, 2008 @ 3:21 PM
Love those jeans, Phil! And what are you guys doing with my cat!
May 23, 2008 @ 3:41 AM
Man, I never envisioned your garden being this…big. Impressive.
Even more impressive is the fact that you got Phil to do all that work. It took us months to get him to just do the dishes.
May 24, 2008 @ 3:49 AM
oh, that’s sweet and thoughful for Phil to do that for you. what a nice garden. i have always loved gardening when i was living in the countryside. how i wish i can have a garden in the city.
good luck and best wishes.
May 24, 2008 @ 5:46 AM
You think you look a lot like your father in that picture? Geez, your dad is much better looking than that….LOL!
May 24, 2008 @ 5:33 PM
@Dogbait – Didn’t you know? I’ve kidnapped your cat! And Phil’s jeans are hideous! I hate when he wears those out in public!
@Sibel – A whole lot of blood, sweat and tears went into that garden. I’m really impressed that it has done as well as it has considering the soil isn’t the best and that I waited way too long to get the plants in the ground.
@ TOPolk – Haha. You obviously never threatened to eat his soul. That is how I get him to help so much. 🙂 Although, getting him out of bed before 12 in the afternoon is still a chore.
@Pinapostcrosser – Thanks for stopping by and commenting. Living in the city does put a damper on gardening. Perhaps you will live in the countryside again, and you will be able to garden like you used to.
@ Dad – You are just a mean old man!!! 😉
May 27, 2008 @ 12:30 PM
Pinapostcrosser– check out ‘urban gardening’ on google. i was going to blog about this but maybe Gab might want to take a stab at it! It looks interesting.
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