garden update.

i have not been blessed with a green thumb. gardening is hard! and if not, then i am clearly doing something wrong. my hanging baskets dried up, the potted flowers also died, our cilantro, basil, and spicy globe basil flowered very quickly. and the stem of the sweet basil plant turned brown.

on a more positive note, jalapeno is rocking just like last year. and the tomatoes are doing okay. i wish they were taller and i noticed that the stems have little bumps on them, not sure what thats about... but we haven't seen any tomato worms this year so i consider that a win. there's an ant colony that keeps surrounding the base of the tomato barrel, i wish they would go away. i don't think they're hurting it, but there are seriously a million ants on the patio all the time. its not my favorite thing. wes and i tried sprinkling cayenne pepper around the barrel, google said that sometimes deters them, but the ants came back the next day. so mission failed. i just sweep them away with the broom now, not very effective and pretty mean. they scatter and climb on my feet and up my legs and for the rest of the day i feel like i have ants in my pants, probably because i do. i should really just stop doing that.

anyways, i ended up buying new hanging baskets and flowers. i just want a successful flower experience! i thought it would be best to buy ones that were already matured since my first attempt failed. its only been about two weeks, but they seem happy thus far. except i did find out while pruning them that moths are attracted to that type of flower. or maybe they were just attracted to me on that particular day. i had been attacked by one at work, twice actually by the same moth. and then when i got home and opened the front door to get the mail, one flew into the apartment from our wreath. and then later that night when i was pruning the flowers, four more flew at me. one of my coworkers and my husband witnessed the attacks and the super weird dance i did to get the moths away from me. i was laughed at both times. its fine, i know i looked ridiculous.

anyways back to the garden, summer isn't over and there is still time to save these plants! there has been plenty of sunshine and water this past week. ☀️ God is taking care of these plants!