This is at least my 3rd year planting vegetables and herbs from seed and it never ceases to amaze me. I'm not sure why I am always surprised to see a tiny sprout coming out of the soil. It is truly a miracle what grows from a tiny seed.
My kids look at me funny when I call them "my babies" but I really do get attached to them, watching them grow, nurturing them and then having them reward me with delicious fruits to nourish my family.
What I will do with all these seedlings is another question. I certainly don't have room in my garden for all of them. I'll have to put some of them up for adoption to a good home and the rest I will squeeze into the tiny plot outside my kitchen door.
Pictured below are Annie's zinnias. She planted a zinnia plant in preschool last year and it survived the summer, even providing shelter for a Monarch butterfly chrysalis which we witnessed in stages from caterpillar to butterfly. Grammy helped harvest the seeds from the zinnias last fall, and now - more babies! Behind the zinnias are Calendula, the "2008 Herb of the Year"- easy to grow and great to make into calendula herbal applications. More on that to come!
My babies are in the laundry room and llllleeeeeaning toward the window. I need to rotate!
ReplyDeleteI'll take some of the excess! I have a few little seedlings planted in cute little pots on the window sill...right above the sink...and I forgot to water them and now they are all dead. Not so good for a farm girl.
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