Last year was my first attempt at a vegetable garden. Initially I wasn’t sure I would enjoy the project. I’ve always had the tendency to believe that it was pointless to take the time to grow something you could simply walk over to the store and buy. However, over time I realized that it wasn’t a huge amount of work and being able to walk out your front door and grab a fresh pepper straight off the plant was worth the effort.
At first I was going to do the whole trendy “organic” gardening but I soon realized that whole concept was strictly for jobless hippies that had more time than sense. It’s a great idea if you have the time to hand remove bugs and organize late night snail massacres but for me it seemed a lot easier to just go down to the industrial farm supply store and buy some heavy duty chemicals. Through some connections I was able to smuggle out some stuff that puts DDT to shame. The plants glow a bit in the moonlight but the entire neighborhood hasn’t seen a bug in over a year. Come to think of it there also seems to be fewer cats roaming around.
I expanded the garden a bit this year. Here is the plant tally so far.
24 Walla Walla Onion plants
3 Ace Tomato plants
2 Beefsteak Tomato plants
3 Yellow Pear Tomato
4 Anaheim Chili Peppers
1 California Wonder Pepper Plant (Sort of a bell pepper I think)
1 Yellow Squash
1 Zucchini
2 Early Girl Tomato plants
Cilantro
Basil
Chives
and I still need to plant some jalapeno peppers.
I’m probably forgetting a few things because I really expanded this year. We’ll see how it goes. Here’s a picture of Jake post-onion planting.
No comments:
Post a Comment