  Just a note so y'all don't think I'm dead... LAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! =) Hahaha... get it? "note"... "LA"... "Sound of Music" sound familiar? "Doe, a deer, a female deer..."? Never mind... Spring quarter started today. No more empty parking lot... now I have to compete for a spot! Starting a garden... started seeds this weekend, going to start more today. Apparently, there are plots you can rent in my neighborhood, near campus... so I'm looking into that.
There is also an attractive 4x4 foot raised bed under the stairs by my apartment that I'm checking into. But for now, my cherry tomato plants and green bean bushes are mere seeds in my urlLink Jiffy-7 MiniGreenhouse (basically balls of dirt in a plastic "house" so the moisture and heat are maintained). It's an ingenious invention, really. The little Jiffy things are dehydrated peat, wrapped and pressed in biodegradable casing -- add water, they expand, and you add seeds.
Then, when it's time to plant, you just put the whole thing in the ground and don't risk disturbing the root system. Very cool. Relatively cheap (because I went to Strader's Garden Center in Columbus, not the website I used above). I think I've found a new hobby.
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