Last year I began my gardening career. Years ago, when we were in our first house, my husband had a good-sized garden for a couple of years. However, that was his project and I had little, if anything, to do with it.
For some reason, last spring I decided I wanted to try growing some herbs. I bought basil and oregano seedlings at a home improvement store and planted them in pots that I put out on our patio. The basil flourished; I’m not sure what happened to the oregano, but it didn’t fare as well. It turned out that I was okay with not having a huge harvest of it as I decided I was much more fond of using the basil in recipes than the oregano.
This year I have decided to grow basil again and to try some cherry tomatoes. I have been wanting to get them going, but didn’t want to start too early. While at a farmers market on Thursday, I found a vendor selling all kinds of herbs, so I bought my basil from him. (The garlic chives smelled wonderful; may have to add that to my repertoire!)
Someone else at the market was selling small cherry tomato plants, so I went ahead and grabbed one of those.
As you can see, I have gotten them planted in the pots and am so excited to begin watching them grow!
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I have never done edibles but I absolutely get thrilled to see my hostas popping up each spring. What a beautiful little miracle that they get so ugly at the end but replenish after a long rest! 🙂
My hubby is building me a raised bed at the weekend to grow veggies in. I can’t wait.
I planted cherry tomatoes two years ago, and they did awesome! They got enormous and produced countless little tomatoes. My kids were in heaven! 🙂
Oh I love my basil, I keep it year round in my window at my house. We also love having fresh produce nothing is better.
Basil is the best. I use it in so many things. Only, I’ve never grown it myself – I always go out andd buy fresh basil at the grocer! I’d really like to grow it myself. You know, after reading this post, I just might get on that! Thanks!
Hope you do! I promise it’s easy – I definitely do not have a green thumb, but have managed not to kill the basil!