When I was little my parents had a garden in the backyard. I remember my dad showing me the ripe strawberries and eating them fresh. I also remember my mom making me hold the giant sunflower for a picture and I hated it because it was very prickly. When I moved to Texas, my first few times at just having flowers was a horrible failure. I did have a peppermint plant that held on for most of a summer, but it was overrun by spider mites and it was a loss. I now live in an apartment and I can't have a garden. I tried strawberries last year, but that didn't work out, neither did the tomatoes. Yes, everything is in a pot. I did manage to keep a snapdragon alive for an entire year, but it died the second autumn.
Early 2014 I had a small peppermint plant, a petunia, and the snapdragon. Sorry, no pics. Snapdragon and petunia didn't make it until winter, but peppermint was hanging in there. It spent most of the winter indoors since it was actually quite cold and I'm not sure how a potted plant would hold up in below freezing weather.
Spring 2015, peppermint is doing quite well, and I got a few more flowers and a spearmint. Good thing I have a lot of pots around.
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| Spearmint on the left, peppermint on the right, various flower in the middle |
My happy little garden. Yes, my porch-thing is dirty. There is a live oak right there and of course ALL the leaves wind up on my porch. I hate that, but do enjoy the bit of shade it provides. The spearmint is tall, with only a few shoots? stalks? uh? and the peppermint is short and more of a small bush. I had to cut out part of the spearmint in the center since it was all dead/dying. I guess that didn't hurt it because it started to flower.
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| Oh! It's starting! |
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| Almost! |
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| Almost! |
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| Getting there! |
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