I know you remember this:
It's kind of seared into my mind, too. Ugly doesn't even describe it - maybe hazardously ugly?
And, as you may remember from my cheapskate backyard math, we did indeed put a lot of
Mmmmm....delicious babies.....
See how they're planted in perfect rows? And all thanks to this perfectly logical and not at all over-complicated and useless technique that I came up with all on my own:
Yeah. Me neither. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but after a while I felt like Catherine Zeta-Jones in Entrapment.
That's my mom's joke.
Budget-wise (or frog-wise, as Karl Pilkington would say), we spent $23 on the seeds and potting soil and $13 on the bags of topsoil we needed to replace the sandbox that was under the old "patio". And you better believe that - unlike 2008, when we planted 28 tomato seedlings at $5 a pop and ate not. a. single. tomato. - I'm not letting even one tomato go to waste this year.
See? I'm reformed.
And so is this 27 square foot patch of my backyard:
