Apple Crumb Cake

I have a black thumb. For three years, I've tried to cultivate a healthy garden of herbs and veggies and I'm starting to realize that I'm the problem. I'm the weakest link. Pepper and parsley plants tremble at the thought of being planted in my backyard. Squash and zucchini don't stand a chance. Even basil, supposedly the easiest and most forgiving of plants to attempt in a home garden, can't survive a summer at my place. I fry those suckers every time. If we were in hunter/gatherer times now, I would not be a surviver. You would find me somewhere in the woods, gagging on grass and brown, spotty tomatoes that undoubtedly had already been predigested by a worm (or something worse). I seriously lack gardening skills. I blame my own laziness (who wants to water a garden?!) and basic agricultural know-how. It's really much easier to just buy my produce from the store and farmer's market,...