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Josh, italics (because he’s always in italics) Lauren, in regular font

So Lauren’s always talking what a green thumb she has. She’s such a Winter Haven girl like that. The way she talks, it’s like I would automatically kill anything I touch, although, in my defense, I was a miracle worker with marigolds in my youth.

Anyway, I thought that we wouldn’t get to witness Lauren’s gardening prowess for a while yet. We’re still in an apartment, we don’t own any land, and the proprietors here don’t like it when your start ripping up shrubs for banana squash. What I had forgotten is that we do have a balcony.

I don’t act like that!  Although, given a situation with a person from Lakeland and one from Winter Haven- most would side with the one from WH, agriculturally speaking.   Besides, I come from generations of farmers, ranchers and grove workers.  I figure I’ve got to have it in me.   But I have to admit, Josh has the whole “landscape” part of gardening down.  He’s got maps of a veggie garden, a flower garden, a chicken coop, and a bocce ball court! that we’d love to have on some property one day.

Our balcony garden started when my friend, Katie, gave me an extra tomato plant that she had. It was in a small pot and had a small green, leafy sprout. A Lowe’s trip was in order. And we already know Josh’s reaction to Lowes trips…

AYE! I done smacked down that toilet with me plunger. I do love Lowes. So many tools, and shiny things…

So we went there just for a bigger pot, and a pole for the tomato plant, and some potting soil, but things quickly escalated. Lauren spotted the seed racks, Bob’s yer uncle, and she’s got 20 different types of basil in her hands. And then she left me to collect pots and other accouterments for ‘em. 

But Babe, we needed those vegetable spikes to get healthy, plump tomatoes.

Well, here are a few pics I snapped as we sat on our balcony planting in our garden together.  

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