Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

I'm going for low-maintenance this year, since I got almost nothing from my purple bush beans and heirloom carrots last year. I bought the tomato plants, instead of growing them from seed, and that plus a couple of Alpine strawberries in the planter out front and a single purple basil and a single purple sage plant in a pot on the deck, is all I've planted (all that's survived, anyway -- I actually bought quite a few other plants from the mail-order nursery "Grower's Exchange", but all the other herbs I bought from them died within two days of arriving or within 24 hours of being potted).