You can take the boy off the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of the boy.

Even though we are currently living in an apartment, we decided to have a garden. Of necessity, it is a small container garden on the deck. The pots are salvaged from planting crepe myrtles at my in-laws’ a few weeks ago. They’re not much to look at, but the price is right and they’ll work just fine.

I planted our garden this morning.

Yup. That’s the garden. Two pots.

We decided on a tomato plant because, well, there is this old saying about love and home grown tomatoes.

And, we planted mint because this is the south. People in the south drink ice tea. We love mint in our iced tea. We planted peppermint because that’s what we found. When and if we find a good spearmint, we might add a third pot to our garden.

The mint was a little straggly, so I spread the spindly stems out and buried them. Mint grows this way naturally, so I figured I’d just give the plant a little head start. I tried to pick a variety of tomato that doesn’t get too tall because I’m not sure how to hold it up. I think I can fit the small-size tomato cage in the pot with this plant, but I’m not sure I want to.

I keep checking on the plants. They’ve been potted for half a day now, and haven’t grown a single new leaf yet.