A gardener's tale

I don't believe I've picked up gardening with deft hands. With my fluorescent green gloves (hate dirt under my nails) and green watering can, I have been religiously watering my little plot for nearly two months.


My 3 varieties of strawberries


From left to right, rocket, little gem,carrots & sunflower. Can you see my pink aunty laundry basket at the background?


Closeup of my 'mixed oriental salad'


Radishes, with more of the 'mixed oriental salad' on top right


My tomato plants in a bag..


The fruit of my labour! Now tell me that don't look luscious


My small pathetic radish..the only reason I planted radishes was because they are apparently the fastest growing vegetable

I do feel that I'm like a lost sheep in a big city, but the other way around.It's like being in a kindergarten class...I did not know that straberries grow from the centre of the flowers.Yeah,me is stupid city girl.I proudly asked my mother..but she shut me up by saying of course she knows.Hehe.

Its highly amusing to see things grow from seed and I am frankly proud of myself to had actually planted a usable garden filled with interesting things.I do wish they would grow faster though...my highly impatient nature is taking its toll on the slow creeping growth of my plants.I get highly offended when I find things have been eating into my plants....I found holes on my chilly plants on saturday and placed an SOS call to my mother...people call their mothers to ask for recepies, me to ask for ways to protect my plants.I even bought some Miracle-Gro thingy to make my plants bloom faster!

I guess there are things that you miss when you are a city-zen...like the joys of seeing things grow..not to mention practicing your patience with the slow growth!