Gardening...my new secret love

For the past three years I have been talking about planting an herb garden.  I don't know why I wanted to do this, I just had this compulsion.  It should be noted that I have a black thumb.  Not a brown one, nope, it's black.  Plants cower in fear.  Well most of them do.  I have this jasmine vine from hell, but that a story for another day.

So this year with the help of my friend and neighbor Monique, I made my herb garden a reality.  

In my head it was supposed to look something like this.  --->

In all actuality it came out looking a little different.  Mainly because I was not willing to commit to planting things in the ground.  If they are going to die by hand commit suicide, I don't want all the extra work of pulling them out of the ground.  So instead, I decided to put them all in containers.  They came out looking like this.

I planted rosemary, cilantro, pineapple sage (which smells divine), mint for those mojito's, green and purple basil and chives.  

So far, so good. 

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