Plant Roll Call, One Day In My Garden

Cue the music:
Amon Tobin – “One Day In My Garden,” Bricolage

These are the plants and seeds I’ve obtained so far:

Cilantro (Coriandrum Sativum)
Got tired of spending $0.50 to $0.99 for a bunch of cilantro that will be tossed out at the end of the week.
Container plant.

Sweet Basil
Tired of using ready made basil cubes and seeing the price of basil in the store.
Container plant.

Thai Basil
Thought it would be good to use this to complement Thai food. Duh.
Container plant.

Purple Sweet Bell Pepper – (Capsicum annum)
Because it’s purple.
Possible container plant.

Tomato – Cherokee Purple
Because it sorta looks purple. It was weird looking and not the typical red tomato.
Raised bed and possible container plant.

Corn – Blue Jade (Zea mays)
Even if it’s blue, it looks bluish purple on the picture.
Raised bed and possible container plant.

Strawberry – Albion
Need another fruit to consume along with all these veggies. Yummay!
Raised bed and possible container plant.

Garlic
Some old garlic was sprouting, so might as well plant it. It also allegedly deters squirrels. Too bad it doesn’t deter Twillight movies with their sparkle vampires from being created.

Red Onion
Got these miniature onions from an asian store. They already sprouted faster than I can eat so might as well plant them.

“Mystery” squash
Have no idea what kind of squash. I would dump food scraps in the compost bin and then transfer the waste into the garden plot. I’m not sure what to do with it because I would have to plan around these pleasant surprises.

Bean – Royal Burgundy (Phaseolus vulgaris)
Yes, I chose this because it’s purple. Unfortunately I didn’t know that I needed climbing beans for the corn. And this is a bush bean. On the other hand it is a container plant and easy to grow.
Container plant.

Carrot – Cosmic Purple (Daucus carota var sativus)
Yes. Because it’s purple.
Possible container plant.

I told you I’m going to have a Purple Thumb Garden!

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Hello world! This recession SUCKS doesn’t it ?!

I felt the impulsive need to blog my adventurous foray into gardening because my body felt the need to digest more than mac & cheese or rice & beans.

Here is a segment from my other blog, The COR of Anni Roc, that explains things further:

Despite my lack of public online upkeep, I opened up WordPress because I am considering opening another blog that will connect to this one. I want to call it, “F*** the Great Recession, I’m Growing My Own Damn Food!” The Purple Thumb Garden. I’ve been quite obsessed with gardening again and I tend to berate myself that I have a black thumb but I realized recently at Adams & Son Gardens that I did have a green thumb once in Florida. I just forgot about it somehow. I guess the memories of numerous failed attempts in the past overwhelmed the memories of growing Purple Queens, Fuschias, and other plants in central Florida. What started with a purchase of sweet basil from Gethsemane has exploded into an obsession in May.

I’m still keeping this blog, just trying to figure out an efficient way of organizing my thoughts and documentation. I would probably treat this blog as a central hub that goes out into other categories and subdivisions. That way if someone is interested in my corsetmaking process they won’t be bogged down with my gardening (mis)adventures or my Chicago architecture rage. I will mention it briefly in this site then link off into the other blog. Like having a giant collection (which is COR) with different sections labeled off (which is The Purple Thumb Garden and future blogs).

Yes, I really wanted to originally name this blog, “F*** the Great Recession, I’m Growing My Own Damn Food!” It’s how I feel about this particular stage of dire events in these current times. I hate you Great Recession of the 21st Century. The only good thing is the recession of my waistline.

I have more or less stopped eating fruits and veggies and (still) eating bread & egg for breakfast, mac & cheese or rice & beans for dinner. I have no extra mouths to feed but my own, so fresh fruits, veggies, and herbs get thrown out and I lose more money. Then ended up on that recession student loan pwned diet that I previously mentioned. Why not ramen? Because I raised myself eating that crap in childhood before it became trendy by college kids. Probably the high salt and MSG intake from childhood ramen resulted in me avoiding salt and Chinese food. I used to joke to myself that I already reached my sodium quota in my lifetime due to my high salt Asian diet intake that I don’t need the salt shaker anymore. (I actually started using gourmet and sea salt recently because a friend mentioned my food seemed bland or delicate tasting, but then they smoke.)