The two best things I ever did for my tiny garden were: Leave town for eleven days. Because not being around to tend to my garden is the greenest my thumb has ever been. Install drip lines. Because I have no idea how much or how little I need to be watering these things. I […]
“Maybe it’s a small weed,” my husband said. “No, it’s a carrot,” I said. I was sure it was a carrot. For two weeks there had been nothing in that pot and then, just like that, there it was. My first plant that I had grown from a seed. A week later, I had three […]
These almost-tomatoes are the first visible signs that I did not drown them like I was sure I had. For awhile, I got a little over zealous with watering and was whipping the hose around like it was spraying magic beans that would grow on contact with anything they hit. I mean, why wouldn’t I water them […]
