Friday, June 20, 2014

I Need Therapy

Zucchini or cucumber?
For having a black thumb, things are starting to bloom at my place and I love it.
 
Gardening is my least favorite thing to do. I pretty much suck at it. However, I am still trying to do a little of it every summer because I do enjoy the process.  Those summers when I have elected not to garden, I always regret it. It's kind of like when someone at work orders Tupperware and I decide to not order and then I'm super envious when the order comes in and I am sitting there empty-handed.  I need a shrink, I know.
 
Well, that's how it is with gardening. I don't want to be empty-handed when fall rolls around and everyone around me is showing off the fruits of their labor, not that I'll have a whole lot to show off.
 
Cucumber or zucchini?
I'm such a bad gardener that I don't even know what I have growing besides the tomatoes and peppers. I think this might be a cucumber but I would not bet my life on it. What is wrong with me? 
 
I had a therapist/friend once who said that you can tell a lot about a person by looking at their garden.  I say, you went to school for 6 years to come up with that diagnoses?  Really?  (insert crazy Jack Nicholson laugh here) Obviously, her words resonated something in me because of all the things I could remember about her, this is the one thing that stands out. Yes, Rose, I'm a little disorganized in the gardening department. Commit me, please. I could use the rest. They let you read books in the mental institution, don't they?
 
I'm just making a little fun of myself this morning. It's Friday. It has been a very long week and I just want to stay home and watch my mystery garden grow. Is that crazy?

love, susan

5 comments:

  1. I hear you, Mom. Our garden is starting to get a little out of control. I had to read up and watch videos on how to prune tomato plants. Hopefully I won't kill them. I think that if stuff is growing you're doing something right, even if you don't have a clue about what you're growing right now. Love you!

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  2. Fun! Send me some pictures of your garden!

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  3. you are not crazy if you admit your funny faults. When you harvest just a small tomato and put it in your salad there is a nice ahhh feeling of growing it yourself. zuke ..growing here fast. tons of tomatoes. And peas climbing up the fence. No corn this year. Nancy

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  4. LOL I was just having this debate with my garden! I've got 3 things I have no idea what they are. I planted them side by side and so thought I'd remember but nope no clue which are cucumbers and which are squash or watermelon. lol Glad I'm not alone!

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  5. Not crazy at all! I love the idea of a mystery garden! What fun awaits you when the time comes that it produces it's fruit (veggie). I'm like you though with gardening. Not into it at all! I do flowers because I like my yard to look pretty but sometimes the work it requires overwhelms me, especially in the disgusting heat of Texas summers. I have friends that get up in the morning and get out in their flower gardens and work all day, all weekend. I envy their passion but I guess my passions lie elsewhere. Can't wait to hear about your harvest Susan!

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