Home Grown

What? What is this? Two posts in the same day? I must be crazy. Not having a 6+ month gap between posts is just plain crazy. Ah, well. Let's not get used to it. So, anyway, I'm blogging (again!) about a quick trip to Walmart yesterday. I'm a big fan of budget shopping. I love the thrill of finding a great bargain. And Walmart is a warehouse full of them, so it's rare that I leave that beautiful place empty-handed. Of course, yesterday was no exception. I hit up the Garden Center to grab some gardening gloves and a watering can (did I tell you? I'm tackling a veggie garden this year. Wish me luck!) and wandered around checking out the herbage/veg options. I ended up picking up a great looking rosemary plant, some spinach, bibb lettuce and another fun leafy green I've never heard of. This, I have decided, will be the start of my garden. You see, last year I had herbs and I neglected to bring them inside for the winter, so ... now I don't have anymore. BUT! I loved having an herb garden! I adored being able to step outside of my kitchen and snip a bit of parsley here, and chives there. It was glorious. So I thought I'd try again, but add to it. By growing my own veggies! A small detail: I live in a town house with a lawn like a postage stamp. My back yard is on a hill and the flat part of our property is covered with a patio. Plus I have a huge curious dog. So an actual plot in the ground wasn't gonna fly. I'm going with the container garden approach, which will find it's happy home on my deck, which, conveniently, lies right off of my kitchen. It's warm and sunny and I can be picking and snipping just steps from my stove. The whole container thing was a bit off-putting at the start. But I did a little research and discovered that lots of veggies will grow really well in containers and most varieties will even dwarf themselves to fit their space. Which is lovely. My plan is to have a container of herbs, a container of lettuces and greens, and a container of other stuff - beans, cucumbers, peppers and the like. I'm debating one of those upside down tomato things too - that I can just hang off the side of the deck and pick from at my leisure. So we'll see. But at the moment, there are leafy green things in my possession that I cannot wait to tend to ... and then EAT! I love this time of year!