Planting Seeds

You have to love the dollar area in Target. They have it by the front door and it's always loaded with seasonal items that you either don't need or are so cheap they fall apart. I try to walk by it, but sometimes I'm just sucked in. Like when there are tiny planters with seeds to start a variety of plants. So I picked up dwarf sunflowers and chalked it up as a lesson for the kids.

First we mixed the soil pellets with some water and waited to let it expand. Then we put the soil in the miniature planter. Then we scattered some seeds on top. We put the planter in the garden window and would excited check on it and water it every few days.


Within a few weeks, there were plants! They needed to be replanted outside. Since I have no gardening tools here (have we mentioned how Chris had to kick down the thorny tree branches growing at Josie's eye level?) so I grabbed a couple big spoons from the kitchen and we headed to the back yard.


There are lots of bushes and trees out back, but also some bare dirt stretches that weeds keep trying to grow in. We planted four sunflowers right along the house. Xander waters them religiously and Josie also wants in on that fun. She usually just causes a moat to form along the edge.


Since then, one of the plants disappeared overnight but the remaining three are growing steadily.

In light of that success I decided to pick up more mini planters of daisies, zinnias, tomatoes and grass. The grass is just for me to have inside. The tomatoes are for Chris. The daisies started to grow but then gave up. The zinnias grew fanatically but seemed sort of depresses about being split up when they were planted out back.

Whether they grow or not, it has definitely been fun for the kids. I suppose that is what is important, right?