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white pom pom flowers...

 
In my backyard every year!

 

I'm going to take some to Anna's baby shower tomorrow.... 

UPDATE:  Anna's baby shower: She's having twins!  
 
 

 

Thinking bigger....

 
I was going to just be satisfied with my potted herbs for the summer but ENK worked on yet another project in the backyard.  He made me a small vegetable planter box four years ago for Mother's day.  I liked the small containable size but I think I want it bigger now.   Lindsey and Dad worked on it together today.  It was finally near 70 degrees.  I asked ENK, "are you sure you want to work on this today?"  He said that it was either this or rain tomorrow.   It's not huge but I think it will be just enough to plant more lettuce for our summer gatherings. 

Spring flowers...

 

Rice Water....

I'm not into house plants or orchids...but I do my best to keep the ones that I have alive.  Usually, I don't do anything and miraculously, they live.  But I learned a trick this weekend.  Es. A  who has lots of orchids by her kitchen window stated that her mom puts "rice water" to the plant once a week!  "Rice water" is the powdery white water you rinse out of your rice before you cook it.  So I tried it... We'll see if this works! 

Dream small...

For mother's day last month, I got a small vegetable planter box from ENK.  He was going to build this ginormous planter box from our leftover home improvement projects....but I asked him to make it small...I know I shouldn't be too ambitious about my gardening.  I have a tendency to kill them.....So I just planted couple of things in my small box: two kinds of lettuce, some "khetnip", small "kochu" plant and a tomato plant.  After a month of watering and good sunlight...it was pickin' time today!

I harvested my first batch for some salad and maybe I'll have enough for "sangchu ssam" tomorrow...  Gardening is therapeutic...if it goes right!