How Do You Make Your Garden Grow?

[jpskewedthrone]

Someone asked if they could see pics of the roof garden, so today I went up and took a few and decided to spam you all with them. I also took a pic of the VASE OF SIN that I mentioned in the previous post.

First, the crackle vase that I stole from the church:







Not the most beautiful piece of crackle that I own, but I'll go to hell for it anyway.

Now the garden. Here are the two shots of either side of the roof:







Those are the two vegetable plots. We also have a few spots for just flowers, and a kiddie pool that we filled with dirt and seeded with grass so that our guinea pigs could have a lawn to munch and run in. It's surrounded by flowers. Here the pic of that:







And now some closeups of some of the veggies that the garden is producing. Let's see, there's tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, corn (2 pics of that--a long shot and a closeup of one of the cobs), watermelon, yellow squash, spagetti squash, and lastly carrots.















And that's what our garden looks like. We've gotten peas from it as well, but they're done already so I couldn't get a picture of them. We have green beans and some peppers that have only just flowered. And for some reason the acorn squash has tons of flowers but no actual squash started on it yet. Perhaps more pictures will be posted once some of that stuff starts producing.

(Yikes! I didn't realize the carrot pic was so out of focus. Sorry about that.)

Comments

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

As someone who occasionally wanders through yard sales and church bazaars, I feel certain that the church people would have been flummoxed had you offered them more for the vase than they were asking for it. You probably would have gotten a puzzled smile, suggesting that you were welcome to make a donation if you really wanted to.

Enjoy your Vase of Sin.

I do love all the suggestions that you write a book by that name.

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed. And even sometimes in other venues. I remember one in a used bookstore, the owner counting out changed and saying, "50, 75, a dollar."
I looked at the coins in my hand and said, "No, you've given me too much. This is three dollars." "No," she insisted, "It's seventy-five cents." "Look," I said. "These coins have Susan B. Anthony on them." "Yes," she said, as if speaking to a very slow person. "They're Susan B. Anthony quarters." I had to actually show here where, on the coin, it said, "One Dollar."

(For you folks from other countries, the Susan B. Anthony Dollar was a short-lived coin -- though not as a short as the Sacagewea Dollar -- which was though to have failed because the coin was very close in size to a US quarter dollar)

But definitely Church Bazaar Ladies would be puzzled if you told them what they were selling as junk was a fairly rare antique.