Gardening Experiments

Its the first day of spring. Yea spring! I have been loving all the fruit trees in bloom. I also like Red Bud trees. I think they are my favorite. At least I think. That's what my Father said they were. Those Bright purple trees. Who doesn't love to look at those?

Our friends over a http://www.doubledanger.com/ are busy this time of year. If you enjoy gardening you should check them out. They have lots of great Gardening and Barbecue tips, and its worth it just for the pretty pictures of what growing in the garden. I believe they were also recently featured on Newswest 9 but I don't have that link. They did a great piece about gardening in these hard economic times we are having. If you Twitter you can find them at http://twitter.com/DoubleDanger.

So they have been generous enough to offer to donate some of their tomato plants to our little patio, And I wanted to post pictures of the area I had been discussing with them.



This is where it happened. The great flower massacre of 2008. Last year I attempted to turn this into a nice little flower garden, but alas I failed. I guess if it was Attack of the show it might even have been an EPIC FAIL. As you can see I have some weeds growing in my patch of dirt. Lets just agree not to discuss those as I will be handling up on is soon. I was donated those concreate blocks by a previous renter. How nice where they? I used them to put two small flower pots on last year. We all know what happened to the flowers. I was real sad.


I also killed some flowers in these last year. I am hoping to keep a tomato plant alive in the big one for awhile. Hopefully long enough to get to eat some.

Just another one for reference on the size of them. I am going to see about maybe some flowers in the small ones. Obviously I am going to need to change to dirt out, looks as if Chris or someone was using it as an ashtray. And I also managed to grow weeds in these containers, but I cant grow some flowers. Whats up with that?

Anyway. Might be fun to follow the progress and see if someone like myself can manage to grow something. It could be hit or miss, but best case scenario is we have fresh tomatoes this year.

Cant you just see it? Me. Gardening. I guess its kind of funny if you knew me. Like a Christopher Walkin Joke.