Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-29356260-20170702193133

I’m trapped. I can’t do anything except write this and pray that someone finds me. Maybe after they read this, they’ll believe me.

It happened 3 months ago, all the way back in April. I bought a bunch of seeds, most of which were herbs and vegetables. I’ve never had any success with gardening, so I had little to no hope and expected them to die. However, it turns out that when I think that something bad will happen, the exact opposite happens. In May, I had a huge harvest of tomatoes, squash, snow peas, green beans, and basil. Especially the basil, which I ended up picking enough to fill 5 gallon-sized milk jugs.

By June, most of the plants were dead or dying, but the basil was going strong. It ended up growing in the pot that used to hold oregano, but I ignored it because I had witnessed that happening before, when my parents had a garden. I was prepared for it to take over the herb garden. What I wasn’t prepared for was it to take over the vegetable garden that was about 2 yards away.

That incident caused me to look up how far basil could spread. I ended up finding an article about the brand of seeds I bought and how the basil was recalled due to being able to grow anywhere, and fast. I’m assuming that those facts would be good in small amounts, but it was too much and they received a lot of complaints, forcing them to recall it.

I went outside and threw out all of the basil in the garden. A few days later, I was throwing out the trash when I found it growing in there. Apparently, when they said everywhere, they meant everywhere.

It then started to grow up the walls of my house. I couldn’t do anything because I lived in the middle of nowhere; I didn’t have a working camera, and who would believe that basil was growing on my house? Nobody, that’s who.

I was starting to get used to it when it blocked my door and windows overnight (literally, in one night). Now, the basil might have looked weak, but it was one of the strongest plants I’ve ever seen. I was trapped in my own house, and I didn’t have any food. I only had basil.

It then started growing inside of my house. It quickly took over my living room and bedroom, and it’s starting to take over the kitchen and pantry.

As I said in the beginning, I can’t do anything except write this. I can’t call for help because my phone’s dead and, as I already stated, I live in the middle of nowhere. All I can do now is pray for help to come soon. The only other option, which is more likely, is to wait for the basil to overtake me. I just wanted a garden. I ended up having a monster.  