Welcome!

Hi there! Thanks for popping by. This is the first post in my new blog, which is meant to chronicle my amazing feats of killing plants.

I've always been a black thumb with plants - I vacillate wildly between gross neglect, parching plants to the near bitter end, then drowning them, literally, with daily over-waterings. I'm not completely inept at caring for things - historically, animals have blossomed under my care, and I have two small children who have managed to thrive thus far. When it comes to plants, however... not so much.

Despite past evidence of failure, I decided to dive head first into creating a square foot garden last summer. In addition to planting (and killing) numerous lettuces, some corn, string beans, peppers and sundry herbs, we also had about 9 tomato plants in containers. There were some successes, but, in the end, I lost heart because, at summer's end, some of the craftier deer figured out how to circumvent my hoopty deer fence.

This year, 2010, I'm back with a vengeance. We JUST had a great fence / gate built into the end of our driveway, which completely seals off our back yard. Now that I feel we can embrace a new year of plant killing without help from the larger local vermin, I'm ready to give it a try.

I wish I'd kept record of last year's attempts, as I've already forgotten a number of the tomatoes we planted, as well as which ones had better success than others. My mom, a fantastic gardener, had suggested a record, and now I see why.

Also, I'm inspired to share this as a blog because I have gotten so much out of reading my friend, Tammy's blog: http://marinmangos.blogspot.com/. She, too, claims to be a beginner, but that's total BS - she even knows about things like "grafts," "cross-pollination" and "harvests."

Wish me luck!