Archive: May 25, 2008

I am whatever the opposite of a green thumb is. Red pinky maybe? When it comes to gardening, I have no idea what I’m doing. This is the first time I have ever lived in a house after a lifetime of apartment dwelling. My mother gardens, and she’s carved out beds all around the ground floor apartment where I grew up. And all my grandparents were farmers; my whole family could just look at soil and tomatoes would start growing. I grew up around agricultural people, but I am clearly missing that gene. I killed a cactus once, the only thing I ever really tried to grow. Do you know how hard it is to kill a cactus?! Not that hard for me, apparently.

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