Day 99: Garden Start-Up

Today's blog will be quick.  We didn't necessarily do a "Craft" today, but more of a learning activity to follow us through the next few weeks/months, if it succeeds :-p  We planted seeds in little cups outside.  While we were at Home Depot on Saturday, I let the girls pick out seed packets of things they want to grow over the spring/summer.  I was hoping that they would choose things like a pack of tomatoes, maybe a pepper plant, some herbs, maybe even some peas or green beans.  Basically, I wanted things that we could easily plant in a planter and not in a huge garden.  Well, leave it to Iris and Penny, they chose lettuce, broccoli, yellow squash, and corn... yes, corn.  We are attempting to grow corn, in a POT on the back porch.. yup this a recipe for disaster.

The girls got to dig shovels full of dirt from a bag and put the dirt in their cups, then they got to put seeds in each cup.  We planted a lot of lettuce, i hope that the lettuce takes off.  But other than that... who knows how this is experiment will turn out, it could be a total disaster, hopefully it will be worth our time in a few months.  Wish us luck! :-p