Excuses For My Lack of Gardening

I have so many reasons (erm excuses) for not starting a living, growing, delicious garden out in my backyard. Here they are:

1. There is not much available space in my yard
2. I have to go downstairs to get to the yard
3. It's too late to start for this summer
   

Ok, so I only have three excuses. And all three of them can be countered by "Kim, Stop Being So Lazy And Just Do It Already!" Well, except for #3. I don't actually know if it's too late. It's probably not. And as for #1, I really haven't found a good spot in the yard for starting my own little garden. The best I've done is a withering tomato plant in my windowbox. I don't even want to show you a picture because it is so sad lately. In this post, the little plants were growing. They basically look like that still, but they're taller and browner. Height = good, color = bad. Let's not even discuss #2. L.A.Z.Y.

I want to have a garden like this someday. I am so insanely jealous I don't know what to do with myself. My friend Trisha is somehow able to grow more edible goodness in her NYC apartment than I am in Berkeley. I have four houseplants that are doing fine, but when it comes to keeping my basil and tomato plants alive, I am severely lacking in green thumbery.

Someday, I want to have a big, flat yard where I can (without having to lug things up and down the stairs) have a raised-bed garden. And grow corn and squash and pumpkins and tomatoes and all that goodness. Someday.

Lots of Someday. Gives me something to look forward to, right?