A Green Thumb I Have Not!

Whew, it's been a week since I last posted anything and to me that's like an eternity. I normally post something, intelligent or otherwise within the span of at least 3 days, so one whole week is pretty long for me. I've just been too busy with work and also with some personal stuff happening around me that writing a post was the last thing on my mind. Now that I've got all my stuff more or less sorted out, I can get back to my regular schedule of posting stuff.

And now that I do have the time to post, I have no idea what to write. Maybe I'll just relate my experience with gardening (yes, don't adjust that monitor, you read right). First of all, let me tell you, I'm not the gardening type, I don't think I've ever held on to any gardening tools in my life ... LOL! I love having a nice garden full of gloriously blooming flowers and hedges but I've no interest in doing them myself.

A few weeks back, not really weeks, maybe about two months back, the wife bought this, urmm, mixed flower seeds (the packed kind) to plant. She also bought a small little flower pot to put the seeds in cos she said once they start growing a little, she'll transfer them to the front yard where they'll (supposedly) bloom into charming beautiful flowers of various kinds. Apparently the seeds were supposed to show some signs of sprouting in a day or two.

Well, true to its advertising, the seeds did grow in 2 days time There was this tiny little shoot sticking its head out of the soil and the wife was ecstatic. I was kind of impressed that the things actually grew. The wife was painstakingly taking care of it for the next couple weeks or so but the seeds only grew up to about half an inch or so and kinda started fading away after that. So the wife decided to give up on them and threw the whole thing away. I was laughing my head off (sorry honey ... hehehe).

Right after that, I jokingly told the wife, maybe she didn't have a green thumb (which in fact she does cos back in her hometown, she has ton's of flowers and plants of various kind that she has successfully nurtured). I told her that maybe she didn't do it right and she said 'why don't you try growing them instead of talking so much!' (LOL) So, I took her up on her challenge. After all, it couldn't be that hard to make some miserable flower seeds grow, rite? (and Adrian, you don't laugh okay!)

I took the pot that she abandoned and cleared it out, added some fertilized soil into it and sprinkled a healthy amount of seeds into it. Then the process of waiting for it to grow began. Again, in two days, I saw some signs of new life, I was on cloud nine. I showed it to the wife and boasted about my gardening prowess. She gave me this, wait and see look. I watered the little seedlings every single day enthusiastically (remember, this is the guy who never touched a gardening utensil or did any gardening in his entire life). In a week, the shoots were now about an inch tall, much taller than the wife's effort earlier. The wife had to admit that they looked promising ... hehehe ... and I started to believe I was a gardening genius .. LOL!

Before I went to work everyday, I gave specific instructions to the wife to water them at 1.00pm precisely. I even called her check if she did water them ... hehehe ... I even wished them good morning when I got up every day (the first time this happened the wife thought I was loosing it). I came home from work and after the usual welcome home hug from the wife, I'd head to the room and start talking to the little 'fellows'. I'd water them again and ask them if mommy had watered them in the afternoon or not ... (yeah, the wife was on the verge of sending me to the mental ward ... LOL). I was so into getting them to grow and prove to the wife that I had a better green thumb than her.

By week two they grew to about 2 inches in height and that's when it decided not to grow anymore. No matter how much I talked to them, sang to them (yes, I did sing to them), coaxed them, but they refused to grow anymore. They started to wilt eventually and I was so bloody pissed with them. How ungrateful of them, after all the things I did for them, fed them, gave them an education, gave them a roof over their head and they go and start wilting out on me ... the cheek of them! LOL!

Eventually they started dying and the wife just threw them away. And there ended my endeavour with gardening. The wife was pretty smug with herself about my failed attempt at gardening. I was devastated (well, not really, but it adds a sense of drama to this post). The thing is I was so perplexed as to why it didn't grow, everything seemed fine, I did all the things the instructions on the seed packet said to do, and yet nothing happened. The soil was right, the conditions were right, the location were right ... siigggghhhh ... maybe it was the singing.

Instead of throwing the seeds, my wife decided to give it to my mom. My mom is basically the one who takes care of the front yard garden in my house. So my mom went and planted the seeds and what do you know, after a few weeks the bloody things actually grew. Flowers even sprouted from them! (yeah, that picture at the top is the actual picture of the flower I took) I was like totally pissed with them seeds! Maybe it just needed the motherly touch to it I guess. When my wife told me a few days back that the seeds she gave to my mom actually produced a flower, I just had to relate my failed attempt at gardening here. Oh well, at least I know I'll never make it as a gardener if I ever do give up Advertising ... LOL!