This summer is such an exciting one because we can actually enjoy it and our house! One of the things we're most excited about it gardening. We've got a pretty sizeable backyard that once upon a time seemed like it was very well-loved. It's currently wildly overgrown and neglected but beneath all that we've got tulips, tiger lilies, blackberry bushes, cherry trees, grape vines, and a wired in vegetable garden.
I'm a pretty novice gardener. I'll generally keep flowers in the house until they die and then throw them out with no attempt to revive them. I have however, had success in the past with herbs so I thought that would be our first undertaking.
My mom gifted me a herb box so I thought that would be my first attempt at creating life:
Full disclosure, I'm pretty sure that these herbs will never sprout see as I've been told it doesn't take more than a few days for them to show their faces and its been like a week.
Regardless of whether those turn out to be a success we did make our way down to the market this weekend and pick up some pre-sprouted beauties.
To plant them in these dollar-store pots I simply lined the bottom with some garden stones (glow-in the dark not necessary unless like myself, it's all you can find):
After that I covered the stones with dirt:
Then I placed the herbs in the pots, put dirt in the gaps and watered.
Ta-dah!
I'm looking forward to cooking with these herbs and watching them grow. I feel pretty confident I can at least keep these babies alive. Oh and the lavender is pretty much an olfactory dream.
From the desk of:
Taylor Brown
Novice Herbologist
