I have an addictive personality. Currently, I'm addicted to my balcony garden. I cannot stop. I just keep buying and planting more things, reading about different plants, and trying to learn as much as I can. After killing just about every plant I touched last year, I finally feel like my thumb is finally a little greener.
I've always been a veggie garden fan, but this year my love is flowers. I've had fresh flowers from the farmers market on my table every week. Now, I'm getting close to being able to clip my own.
My plant of the week was bee balm (second and third picture above). I spotted it on Tuesday from my favorite vendor, but tried to convince myself that I had enough plants and flowers for now. Well, come Friday, I had already bought more flowers at the nursery, so I thought what the hell. I'm getting the bee balm. Then I almost got in a fight with a woman at the farmer's market who was trying to snag it.
Apparently they frown upon that, by the way.
My dad was there and said that he was a little nervous when he saw the woman checking it out. He said I got "that look".
I'm actually a little fearful for when I have a home with a yard, as I've filled every possible space on my balcony with pots and planters. Perhaps, I'll learn some moderation by then...
Or not.
Someone find me a "Welcome to the Jungle" sign, please. :)
The flowers I planted in the ground are doing "iffy." The potted flowers are doing great. I think our soil in the ground is too crappy and this fall we will have to get the rotatiller (did I spell that correctly?) and some decent soil to mix in.
ReplyDeleteI know what will cure your addiction - when you do get the house with the yard. Weeding! Sure-fire cure. Because the more beds you have the more weeds you'll have to contend with. Stick to the container gardens - much less work. They are gorgeous by the way.
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ReplyDeleteI do the same thing. I do have a yard and it is completely fulled up. But I didn't stop! now my back porch is covered in tomato plants.
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