In my attempts to ellicit some extra connection with the natural world, my darling Mr.X and I started a little container garden.
By little I mean… green and orange peppers, big tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, habanero peppers, dill, cilantro, mint, basil, chard, garlic chives, and two types of pretty flowers.
It was great! Mr. X and I don’t necessarily have the same spiritual belief systems. But sometimes we find a way to come together in the middle. His interest in environmental sustainability, and not wanting to spend any money on something he could get for free (or at least a small investment), and my desire to connect more with the earth dovetailed nicely into an afternoon in the garden.
Now I just get to wait until we have some actual vegetables! We got plants that were already established instead of going the seed route, so it won’t be that bad. Our big tomato plant already has a big green tomato on it!
I went out this morning and plucked all the flowers off of the herb plants to encourage them to grow more leaves instead of flowers, and I checked to see at what point the sun started hitting them in the morning. We’ll monitor throughout the day to see how many hours of full sun they get, so we can move them if we have to. They’re all in containers, so that will be easy.
And there you go. My little moment of zen yesterday.
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