Garden thoughts

*slumps in* hey Scribblings. It’s day 5 of the Elimination Diet and day like 8 of constant migraines. *cheers weakly* yaaayy.
The Diet is going well, all things considered. I remembered on Friday that I can have some fish on this so I got out a few salmon fillets from the freezer and the next day I dined on salmon and rice and it was bliss.

Today I wanted to talk about gardening! It’s been a fixation of mine ever since I was little. I dreamed about curating a garden specifically for tea! I craved nurturing tea bushes and herbs to craft my own blends and I looooved the idea of having a flower garden I could just go into and pick fresh flowers for my table whenever I wanted.

I also adored the idea of a sprawling orchard and veggie garden full of green bean arches, strawberry patches, asparagus ferns, squash trelliss and tomatoes by the dozen . . .

Sadly all my efforts into gardening was . . . Uh, disastrous.

So back in 2019 I decided to start to change my black thumb to a green one by buying a houseplant!
So in March I got a houseplant and named him Deeks—as I was in a NCIS LA binge and guess who my favorite character is in that one—.

As you can see, he is still alive! And thriving, dare I say. Over the years I’ve gotten a few more plants such as some spider ivy, two wired flowering plants I can’t find the name of, a burgundy ivy, two aloe plants, and a blue-sage green succulent!

My black thumb has turned to a yellowish green now and I would recommend this method of learning how to not murder plants to get a spider ivy. They are resilient and if you kill it then you are very very talented.

Now comes in this book above. I got this book last year and boy I LOVE it. It revived my childhood desire for a sprawling garden and I’m not mad at it.

So this year one of my goals is to garden! Before March my goal is to plan out my garden—without getting too ahead of myself and overwhelm myself—and then start the seeds inside.
But I know myself. I’m chronically ill and I know from past experience with gardening—RIP my okra and asparagus — that consistency is the key. You have to treat your garden carefully and attend to it much like a pet.

Sigh. So I’m going to treat it as a pet and check it out once a day. But the key to all of this, and how I can do it with chronic fatigue, is to start SMALL. Very small.

Like 2-6 plants small. So I’m thinking 2 herbs, 2 perennials, and 2 annual veggies. I might add 2 flowers because I’m extra like that but I literally don’t think I can do much more than 6-8 plants.
Remember we are trying to work our way up from small plans, Tiffany!

Well those are my thoughts and plans for gardening.
Have you ever thought of gardening? Would you consider a houseplant or househerb pot?
I’d love to know <3

‘Till next we meet.
~Tiffany Michele