Saturday Photo Hunt – Fresh

This week’s photo hunt theme is Fresh, which luckily fell in line with what I wanted to write about today.  Fresh food!  My very own future home-grown fresh off the balcony veggies! OMG!

This week I got a package from Jenny (my stepmom-in-law) with these three packages of seeds included.  She sent along a little card explaining that while she was ordering seeds for her garden she noticed that they had an urban collection and thought of me!  These veggies can be grown in pots on your balcony, which gives you the ability to grow some of your own veggies without the need for a lot of space or your own garden.  Pretty cool, huh?

I’ve never grown veggies before and I’m pretty notorious for killing almost every plant I’ve ever owned (except the one behind the seeds in this photo, still alive since October 2008!), but I’m totally going to give this a go.  I’d be thrilled to death to eat a salad which includes veggies I grew all on my own.  Plus, the growth would make for some pretty cool blogging material.  I think I’ll call it Project Veggie!  It’s a great summer project and will be a true test of my not-so-green thumbs.

Now, I just have to spend some time googling what the instructions mean, like ‘sow’, which I thought was the action of planting them, but apparently I need to sow them a number of times?  I will, of course… as soon as I figure out what sowing means!

Thanks Jenny!!