I've always had a love for planting and gardening. There's such a reward from eating the fruits (or veggies) of your labor. In this, I've introduced gardening to Cornie at a very young age. He would love to help me in watering the plants and flowers, pulling out weeds and tilling/digging in the soil. Last year, he planted his own tomato and pumpkin plants. Pumpkins which we used to carve our Jack O'Laterns this past Halloween. This year, instead of buying the tomato plants as seedlings, he wanted to try growing them from actual seeds.
We came across these Buzzy seed kits at our local Target store. You can get each kit for $1. The one type comes in a silver pouch with tomato seeds and the other in a little 2" clay pot. You can select from a small variety of vegetables to grow in the clay pots, but we chose sweet basil, tomato and red peppers. Since it was our first time using these, I decided to try both the kits out. The kits come with a dirt pellet and you simply just add water, fluff and place the seeds. We planted the seeds last Sunday, April 11th. From the silver pouch, you can see all the little seedlings growing like crazy! The seeds that we planted in the little pots are just barely sprouting.
<----- There's got to be over 20 plants in there!
There's about 6 basil plants there ------>The sweet peppers and tomato plants that we've planted in the clay pots have not sprouted yet. Hopefully, they will soon.
Each day Cornie checks out his little plants and gets all excited at how much it's grown from the last time. It's so fun to see his enthusiasm. If all the plants survive, along with the pumpkin seeds he's already planted in the garden outside, we will have quite the harvest this year!
<------Cornie collecting pumpkin seeds from the remains of a Jack O'Latern of the previous year.
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