Life's Whirlwind Adventures

I do not have a green thumb.  Nope not at all.  I try and I put in a valiant effort, but most plants I come into contact with seem to die, rather quickly. It's sad really.  However for the past two years I have had a garden in my new home.  (Before I was always renting and had no place to have a garden.)  It still amazes me that anything will grow when I plant it since nothing I keep in my house wants to stay alive.  Literally, I have had a dozen different plants in pots and they have all hit my compost bin in the past year.  I don't know what I am doing wrong, or how to change it, but plants inside (which I LOVE) and I do not go hand in hand.  My garden seems to be a different story.  Last year I had a truly successful year.  We had potatoes and peas and tomatos.  It was a late start to planting, but everything I planted grew up and provided for us abundantly.  Well except for the carrots (totally not my fault, my dog dug t...

Last year I planted my first garden all by myself, and it was a pretty successful garden.  The only thing that did not turn out or produce anything were the cucumbers.  I also found the tomatoes took forever to ripen, I had to pick them and store them in my basement before they even began to turn red.  Now the gardening season is upon us again.  I was late in the game last year for planting so we had a late harvest season.  It turned out alright, but I want to be on the ball this season.  I am doing some research and asking some well informed ladies about gardening (mom and Grandma) in hopes to have another successful season.  I am also hoping to do some flower beds and some planters this year as well.  It seems like a brave undertaking for this plant killer, but I am determined to learn how to live with plants so that I can have plants in my house all year long and fresh veggies into the fall. We have had to make some modifications to our gard...