How does your garden grow?

As you know we have taken over the planters in front of the apartment building. Living where we do between the nightlife and the lowlifes, the garden has suffered many travails through the brief months of its existence. People pour their to-go beers into the plants, which kills them. People tear out the plants and stomp on them in a bestial rage. Other people simply pick the flowers or help themselves to entire plants which they carefully dig out by the roots.

Why people do this is beyond me, but it makes me yearn to move back to Japan where nobody ever messed with your garden, even when they climbed over the wall to use machine tools to liberate my bike from where it was securely chained to the bars over the windows.

Here’s what we have this spring:

Sunflowers

Swiss Chard and Glads

My neighbor planted the chard and has actually been eating it. Personally I’m not convinced eating anything grown here is safe, but whatever.

Pumpkins and Corn:

(I have high hopes of growing the world’s largest pumpkin)

and

Roses: