Gary buys a plant! And potted vegetables! And a plant POT! And soil!
It was so very hard for me to choose the best title line, so I just used them all. In a nutshell, on Saturday, for the first time EVER, I went to a nursery to buy something for ME. Not for a Mother's Day flower, or with a friend, or with mom and dad, or with ANYone else for THEIR lush garden. For ME. For MY apartment. Dammit, I wanna grow my OWN vegetables! And have a flower or plant...or two.
I wanted something interesting and "beachy," so I settled on fiber optic grass. YAY! It kinda looks like sea grass, and the write-up about it promises that it's "incomparable when rippling in the wind." Perfect! I also want a juniper plant, but first things first. I also spent an ungodly amount of time deciding which vegetables I wanted, ultimately deciding strawberries, tomatoes, and Thai hot peppers would be my first experiments. Again, YAY! Really, you homeowners have NO idea how exciting this was for me...and renters, too, who maybe have, I dunno, a yard or patio to play in? Or simply have always had houseplants...though i'm more excited about the vegetables. It fulfills a creative yearning to till my OWN soil!! And soil I did buy, too...today...to add to...(and I'm starting to feel like the PRICE IS RIGHT announcer) MY NEW PLANT POT!!
Yes, what fun it was to browse Walmart today for a plant pot and windowbox. I'm not joking...not remotely...about my excitement over ALL of this. Sadly, I never found my windowbox. I feel like I MUST be able to find one for under $10? Walmart only had one...for $13-something. Fuck that...more than I want to spend. Oh, Christ, how could I forget...are you ready?...wait for it...wait...my NEW WATERING CAN AND SPRAY BOTTLE!!!!!!!!!!! Both in pleasing and suitable green colors. That was today, too. Under $3 total for both! The pot was the biggest problem, but I finally found a good $5-something brown ceramic one...made in Portugal, always a plus. And off I went, giddily anticipating using my new gardening wares.
And now my fiber optic grass sways in the brown pot, my vegetables sit freshly bottle-sprayed on the windowsill, and the soil sits tightly wrapped in the utility closet. And I feel ever closer to being a Normal American...ie, a homeowner with a garden. Who goes to Lowe's on weekends, and washes his car using a hose extending out of the garage on a sun-drenched, tree-lined street, while the dog's tied by its leash to a railing on the front steps.
I wanted something interesting and "beachy," so I settled on fiber optic grass. YAY! It kinda looks like sea grass, and the write-up about it promises that it's "incomparable when rippling in the wind." Perfect! I also want a juniper plant, but first things first. I also spent an ungodly amount of time deciding which vegetables I wanted, ultimately deciding strawberries, tomatoes, and Thai hot peppers would be my first experiments. Again, YAY! Really, you homeowners have NO idea how exciting this was for me...and renters, too, who maybe have, I dunno, a yard or patio to play in? Or simply have always had houseplants...though i'm more excited about the vegetables. It fulfills a creative yearning to till my OWN soil!! And soil I did buy, too...today...to add to...(and I'm starting to feel like the PRICE IS RIGHT announcer) MY NEW PLANT POT!!
Yes, what fun it was to browse Walmart today for a plant pot and windowbox. I'm not joking...not remotely...about my excitement over ALL of this. Sadly, I never found my windowbox. I feel like I MUST be able to find one for under $10? Walmart only had one...for $13-something. Fuck that...more than I want to spend. Oh, Christ, how could I forget...are you ready?...wait for it...wait...my NEW WATERING CAN AND SPRAY BOTTLE!!!!!!!!!!! Both in pleasing and suitable green colors. That was today, too. Under $3 total for both! The pot was the biggest problem, but I finally found a good $5-something brown ceramic one...made in Portugal, always a plus. And off I went, giddily anticipating using my new gardening wares.
And now my fiber optic grass sways in the brown pot, my vegetables sit freshly bottle-sprayed on the windowsill, and the soil sits tightly wrapped in the utility closet. And I feel ever closer to being a Normal American...ie, a homeowner with a garden. Who goes to Lowe's on weekends, and washes his car using a hose extending out of the garage on a sun-drenched, tree-lined street, while the dog's tied by its leash to a railing on the front steps.
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