Our faux garden!

For the first time ever, we have plants (and herbs!) growing!! (I call it a faux garden, because it’s not really a garden, but rather a hanging planter and a pot.) Anyway, I have always wanted to grow basil and tomatoes, but I’ve never been successful—until now! It’s all Aunt Marge’s fault—for Christmas, she got us these cool hanging planter things, and since we were already planning on planting tomatoes, we figured we might as well plant some other stuff!! So, we have a few different varieties of tomatoes, as well as some sweet peppers and I think even one hot pepper.

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On the deck, we have basil and chives. The basil just amazes me. I’ve cut a bunch off for pesto a few times (yummmmm!), but it keeps coming back (I know it’s supposed to do this, but it’s still neat to watch!). Today I plan on making some basil butter and basil oil. I can’t wait to have fresh tomatoes with fresh basil—and get some real mozzarella from Sams Club!

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