Friday, May 22, 2009

Kill It

Gardening is about sex and death. Or so I hear.

Anyway, tomorrow there's going to be some death. I planted a seedling that was supposed to be borage. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. Either way, the leaves (which I was told to use in salad - tastes like cucumber) are huge, and hairy in the way that stinging nettles are hairy. Almost as prickly, too.

So that's either not what I thought or not what I wanted. And tomorrow it will meet its fate.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Borage is, in fact, hairy and has a science fiction little shop of horrors look to it.
So spare that plant, Gardener.

Karl Katzke said...

Sex and death? No wonder I've taken to gardening.