Thursday, March 19, 2009

Obvious and the Oblivious

Its back. That little springtime is almost here, lets kick it into high gear and actually have a backyard garden to relax in mode I semi embraced last year.
My jasmine has started climbing the walls of the apartment and the blooms smell amazing. The leftover onions are still hanging out in the ghetto planter box that gave me that nasty bruise last year. My aloe looks like it would rather die a thousand deaths then live another second in my garden but my Rosemary and mint LOVE me.
So after suffering through the fall and winter feeling like a gardener looser and doing nothing to change the state of my sad garden, two weeks ago I took action and put some good hard work into it. Cleaned up the trash and spread the rocks that Susan so nicely donated to me. Went and bought some pots and plants for my newest idea to keep the idiotic apartment gardeners from ruining my "wall" I had built for the umpteenth time.
The idea was to rebuild the wall again, because apparently stepping on it and collapsing it SEVERAL times did nothing to help them learn from their mistakes, (oh and thanks gardeners for collapsing the wall so many times and NEVER putting it back together) and then put plotted plants on that level so they would not step on it. Obviously makes sense right? I mean if you saw a wall that had previously been collapsed with new plants on it would you step on it? I wouldn't but apparently I am not as oblivious as some people. They went right ahead and found a nice little space next to my plants to put their big fat feet and collapse the wall again.
Not only that but somehow I just knew after last year's weed whacker incident with my onions (oh yes they did) that they most likely had done something else as well. I was right. My nasturtium that I was so happy had seeded itself from last year was gone. They had pulled it out like a weed and went ahead and clipped all the branches of my pepper plant as well.
Apparently my landlady had not talked to them like she promised. Big surprise. I guess I will have to make a sign. That's classy.

2 comments:

Lisa said...

"Dear Gardeners,

Please do not attempt to do your job in my backyard because apparently you really suck at it.

Thank you,

Tamara

PS, I really hope you know how to read so this letter actually serves some purpose and hopefully saves my wall from future destruction."

Unknown said...

nasturtiums are kinda weedy -- ours comes back no matter how many times it's cut or left unwatered.