Plant A Seed, Watch It Grow!
I made some additions to my fire escape garden garden a few weeks ago. The sun has been brutal lately, but I’ve been doing my best to water all the plants every day. A quick thunderstorm just hit my neighborhood, so I will likely not have to water it today.
There is something just so incredibly wonderful and powerful about plants. I’m sure I don’t have to explain it to those of you who feel the same way. Planting a seed, getting dirt underneath your fingernails, keeping it watered, pulling up the weeds, and watching it grow, it’s all just beyond words.
My basil is flourishing, and actually I have been googling basil recipes all week to keep up with its growth. I have a few small tomatoes filling out nicely, some of the flowers are blooming, and I can see the little buds blossoming that will soon be habanero peppers.
It brings me so much joy to have a little garden in the city, outside of my little studio apartment. Who says fire escapes can’t be gardens?! (Okay, probably the fire department, but I swear there is still plenty of room to escape in the event of a fire.)
I can’t wait to eat my first Brooklyn fire escape-grown tomato!
My name is Kendra and I am a fourth-year medical student attending 
Congrats on the garden and the step 2!
Wow, this is looking great. I am particularly envious of your tomatoes; I tried for three consecutive years to grow them on my patio but if the squirrels didn’t get them then there wasn’t enough sun and the tomatoes never quite made it to maturity before the cooler fall/early winter weather hit.
Congratulations also on Step 2. How quickly the time has passed that that is already behind you!
Gratz on step2!! So what will become of the blog? IslandMedResident doesn’t have quite the same ring to it
Also, its off topic, but where does a young and modern almost-doctor such as yourself stand on the lab coat issue? I’m a big fan of scrubs (the garment not the show) and gowns over lab coats and I would think they’re much better for disease control. Nurses at the local hospitals wear street clothes in, change into scrubs, and aren’t allowed to leave the building wearing those scrubs. Why should doctors be different? Do you personally really feel you need a white coat to establish a proper rapport with your patients?
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