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Saturday, January 9th, 2010

While I have neglected to report to you the happenings of the apartment garden over the past few weeks, I have not neglected the apartment garden. However, the sun has neglected the apartment garden and the results are rather saddening. Before I divulge the details, allow me to preface them with this: It’s been cold [...]

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

My jasmine is giving birth to one flower a day. Maid of Orleans jasmine only keeps its flowers for a day before they fall off. I am collecting them to make tea. In other news…one of my lavender plants is doing well, the other is quickly dying. My basil is back in the game and [...]

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

If you have too many plants in your apartment does it make you a plant lady? Is that the equivalent of a cat lady? I thought that my basil was feeling a little cramped and a little under the weather.  (I’m not quite sure where the Florida sun went, but we would really like it [...]

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

I have temporarily stopped buying plants. I figured I should make sure that I can keep 7 plants alive–yes 7!– before I turn my apartment into a tropical paradise. My final inventory: two provence lavender plants one mint one basil three cloves of garlic (they have roots!) one maid-of-orleans jasmine (it’s going to bloom any [...]

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

I’ve become a bit obsessive about this garden I have growing in my apartment. Maybe I should have purchased theapartmentgardener.com as my domain name. I suppose knowledge about gardening is knowledge nonetheless. Now…onto reaping the benefits of my garden! I made pesto with thai basil from my windowsill herb garden. But not just any pesto…white wine [...]

Friday, November 20th, 2009

While I should have been reading chapter 10 of Erika Hoff’s language development textbook, instead I was growing an apartment garden. Apparently I did not learn my lesson about being too hasty. I planted the confederate jasmine in a window box that I fear may be too small. I also planted the lavender in a [...]

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

I have started a collection of hobbies over the past year… scrapbooking painting blogging headband making instant photography And as if this list were not long enough, today marks the first day of apartment gardening. I really love flowers they smell wonderful and some even taste good! (Don’t knock it until you try it!) However, [...]

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

I have a thing for starting art projects and never finishing. My artistic endeavors range from crochet to painting; from coloring books to scrapbooking. While I have completed two entire scrapbooks and a half a dozen paintings, I don’t plan on opening up an art museum any time soon. However, I do feel the beginnings [...]

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Eric and I got into a heated debate this past weekend. He claimed that the world would be a better place if everyone had a math or science degree. While it was kind of him to include social sciences like psychology and sociology (which I was sure he would exclude, considering his pomposity when it [...]

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