Apparently, I’m becoming a man. Two weeks ago, I bought my first power tools. Then I went to Home Depot for gardening supplies and got really excited (I love Home Depot, it kicks Canadian Tire’s ass) and now I’m about to construct something. Well, I’m just nailing together a few pieces of wood but still…construction. Manly. Grrrrr. Anywho, I have waaay too much homework to ignore today so I’m going to summarize briefly what I picked up today:

Home Depot:

• 8 pieces of 1 x 6 x 4 to build two square foot veggie gardens
• 2 pieces of scrap wood so I can hang my topsy turveys off the deck fence (because Mom won’t give up her hanging basket spots)
• 2 planter boxes (like 2 feet by 3 feet?)
• huge bag of peat moss

Garden Centre:

• 3 bags potting mix
• 2 bags compost
• 1 bag worm castings
• 4 blueberry bushes (2 different varieties, which escape me right now)
• Big tub of “rot-it” (to speed up the compost)

I think that’s everything. Unfortunately, it’s raining and freezing out right now so my little construction project will have to wait a day or two until the weather clears up. I can’t wait to plant my garden. I’m considering it my micro-micro farm on my 10 x 20 terrace (?). I even have a teeny tiny herding dog (Zoë the Yorkie) to herd the…um, ants or something. Well, she can scare away the crows anyways. Now if I can just convince Mom to let me have a couple Bantam chickens…