I would love to have a vegetable and herb garden, but it is a lot of work.  I don’t feel like digging, and I don’t feel like building raised beds.  But I hate buying produce which might be sprayed with insecticides or herbicides, or that has been shipped a long distance, or is genetically modified.  Farmer’s markets are starting up, and that is a great alternative, but imagine how wonderful it would be to walk into the backyard, pluck a tomato off of the vine, slice it and eat it while it is still warm.  It is a living vegetable, full of energy, not depleted on the long truck ride from Florida or Pennsylvania.

I also don’t have time to maintain a garden – when would I do that?  In between running, yoga, working, school, sleeping, etc…no time!

My brother in law told me about Topsy Turveys.

They don’t take up any room on the ground, and the only maintenance is watering them every day.  He says he uses them and gets tons of tomatoes.  The reviews on Amazon aren’t as stellar, it seems people either love them or hate them.  But they were only $5.98 each, so I ordered three.

Mr. Lemon went out today to buy tomato plants, soil and fertilizer and we “planted” them this afternoon.  They look so pretty!  I keep looking out the window to see if they are growing.  I hope these work because I really want my very own tomatoes.

My neighbor also gave me a little basil plant yesterday which I planted in my “herb garden” (a piece of dirt that also contains a parsley plant which is now flowering, I think that is a bad thing.)

And just because they are pretty, here is a photo of our “roses” (they are not really roses, I’m not sure what they are, Mr. Lemon got them at Home Depot last year):

Do you like to garden?  What do you grow?