It’s true. Sad, but true. I kill plants. Much like smokers who refuse to quit kill kittens, I kill plants.
I planted something in a small pot I received from my grandmother. It died.
I was given a cactus. It died.
I was given an un-killable vine. It died.
This track record isn’t all that great, agreed? Agreed. Yet somehow, by some MIRACLE, it appears I might be getting over this curse.
Allow me to elaborate. My father has a strange plant that he swears is in the “virtually unkillable” category (much like the vine I managed to kill in high school). It’s called “mother-in-law’s tongue,” and he’s had it in his office for quite some time. It finally just got too big for the pot, though, so he brought it home and had my mom break it up into smaller pieces to put in smaller pots.
I, determined to get over this black thum plague, asked for a piece and got it. This was back at the beginning of this school year, and since then it’s been sitting on top a desk. I water it about once a month, just a small amount of water (it’s supposedly a desert plant?). And so far, it is still green. Granted, some of the leaves on the bottom are kinda shriveled, but I wonder if that’s due to lack of light rather than lack of water? I’ve since moved it to by the window.
Then, the university had a fair it has every year, where all the departments kind of have their own tents and they do stuff. Our forestry and agriculture department was selling…plants! Herbs at that! Since I had proven myself able to not kill a plant for almost a whole school year, I decided it was time I tried my hand at something else, and possibly ride this wave of fortune to something greater, to a place where “black thumb” is not even in people’s minds! And since they were only $1, I picked up a pot with cilantro and Thai red basil in them.
Since then, the cilantro has gained twice its height from when I bought it, and the basil is flowering. I didn’t realize they flowered, but the little purple blossoms are so cute! <3 In other words, they’re doing quite well! Which, since I’ve been fussing over them like a worried mother, I guess isn’t all that surprising. But to me, this is SUCCESS! I mean, I have to water them every day, and the cilantro typically twice a day (it needs lotsa water), but so far the worst I’ve gotten are the bottom leaves of the cilantro getting a bit yellow. The basil seems to be quite happy with the arrangement, so no problems with that one.
Now I just need to find a reason to USE the things. I mean, I love cilantro, but I can’t just sprinkle it on anything. I used a bit of the basil in my chicken the other day – not bad, but hard to taste with the anise I’d added earlier (too much… =__= ).
Still, that’s all this post was about. And Since it’d be boring without something graphical to look at, I’ll upload the sprite pages for that cell phone game from an age ago.
