Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

How does your garden grow

Generally speaking, my gardens don't grow, they wither and die. I'm bad about watering. It's pathetic. Yet even knowing this about myself, every spring I buy a bunch of plants, stick them in pots or the ground, then I watch them wilt.

This spring was unusually cool and wet, and now we have hit the nightly thunderstorm season. It is actually so bad that a few of my plants died not of the usual dehydration, but from drowning. No kidding, they just rotted.

But look at this pepper! Not only is the plant itself robust and green, but I have flowers, and peppers, and look! Ripe peppers! Right there! The red ones!

Too bad I don't actually eat peppers.