Yep, it's true...

I can cook. I can bake, clean, sew and have a host of other skills..BUT...

I have a black thumb...

This is true - I kill EVERYTHING.

I even once killed a bamboo plant, and even worse, a cactus.

When Bob and I first got married, 

he would buy me hanging baskets for the front porch, something like this...

So pretty.

Until about 2 weeks later when they ended up looking like this...

So, I did what any neurotic and "not wanting to look untalented" wife would do.

I would pile them BEHIND the shed, kind of like a little plant cemetery,

drive to Home Depot and buy 5 more.

This went on for 2 years until yard clean up exposed my secret.

I was banned from having anything that wasn't plastic.

Until now.

I use a lot of herbs in cooking, and that can be expensive.

(note: I have a spend-thrift husband and a grocery budget)

So I have decided to attempt an herb garden.

I have "husband approval to purchase the plants and he is going to build me a planter.

I figure if it goes awry, I can hang the dead, dry herbs in one of those broom things and make it look intentional.

Please pray for the plants.