One girl who gardens

'When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too.' - Linda Solegato

Todays big activity was starting my new herb garden. I've grown plants before. I remember I had a swan plant once upon a time although I rather lost interest when the one monarch caterpillar that lived on it turned into a butterfly. Then there was the time that I had a basil plant in a pot until I kind of used up a little bit too many of the leaves. They were so delicious, but unfortunately that meant that it died. This time I've vowed to pay attention to my new herb garden. I shall water it every day, prune the leaves neatly and keep it alive for at least three years.

The entire reason behind my garden is that I'm a student living in a flat this year. That means that I can hardly afford buy fresh herbs for my exotic cooking. Unfortunately as my cousin told me 'you've got champagne tastes on a beer diet.' Something's inevitably going to give. My herb garden is my way of making sure that that doesn't happen to be my bank balance. One early birthday present should ensure that I have delicious herbs indefinitely.

How can I be so sure of this? Well I've decided to treat my herbs as children, since I don't have any children I think that's perfectly okay. My theory is that the reason children manage to grow so big and tall isn't because of genetics but rather the ridiculous amount of food and love they receive. My theory is that a persons height is directly correlated to the amount of love that their parents gave them. That makes sense since Kim Jong Il was only 160cm. He wasn't a very nice person, so his parents didn't give him enough love and so he wasn't very tall! Whereas by comparison Nelson Mandela who was a wonderful fellow is 1.93 m, nice and tall because of lots of love.

So I'll parent my plants so they grow nice and tall. First step of parenting is naming. My plants from left to right in their little rectangle pot are Pablo (Parsley), Benjamin (Basil), Millicent (Mint) and Tally (Thyme). I decided to keep the male and female plants separate so I wouldn't get any hanky panky/cross pollination action. Then I'll feed the children, which is what every good parent should do. All sounding rather good? I'll make sure that they don't spend all of their time watching TV and go outside every so often to get some sunlight. Oh and I guess I'll have to read to them too. You know grow their minds as well? Wait do plants have brains? That's a big question which opens a rather philosophical door that I really don't want to open.

I've now introduced you to my herb garden which I'll probably write about incessantly (like every other annoying parent) and with whom I'll probably grow to have an unhealthy attachment. What can I say? I'm single.

Song Obsession
I think this song really sums up the last two episodes of 'Chuck' and most importantly the Charah dynamic. Fark I'm going to miss that show.
The Scientist - Coldplay

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