Gardening, another creative outlet

I feel like I’ve been away from my creative self for so long. With my day job as a analyst in a biotechnology company, and my sick littlest one who came down with bronchitis, times have been tough. But thank goodness for antibiotics and vacation days!

This last weekend was quite lovely in Southern California. So, I had a brainstorm…let’s get our vegetable garden going. Really, it is the perfect time to start planting. With the time change, there is now opportunity to tend the garden after we all come home from work. So off we went to OSH to purchase some seeds and pony packs. It turned out that I wasn’t the only one with a brainstorm of such magnitude! OSH was packed and their plant selection was dismal at best. However, I became resourceful and started looking at things I had not planted before. I have to mention that last summer, we had a garden as well (pictured above). We loved it, it was fun, but not too functional in terms of harvesting veggies. This year, I have a new plan. I am going to plant all the ingredients to make a yummy pico de gallo. I can’t wait to harvest the tomatoes, onions, garlic, and cilantro! And if the harvest is quite bountiful…I will attempt to make home made spaghetti sauce and jar it up for storage for future use over the long California winter. I also planted edamame, lettuce, carrots, and radish seeds. I also planted lots of bare root strawberry plants. They came in a 10 pack and I bought 2! I hope they do well, but right now, they sure don’t look like much!