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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]