Sister Fearless

boo you.

merry xmas shannon.

I'm great! Stop by once in while, will ya. Geeeeeeeeezzzzz!

howdy sis.

Hey sister. How are you?

boo.

happy bday sissy.............smiles

bday you?

A friend is trying to get her kids started gardening, since they spend so much time indoors and have scruffy grass and trees out back instead of the lush lawn that kids apparently require to play, and she bought them each one of those little Crayola pots from Lowes. The older girl can't figure out why her sunflowers keep dying in their little 1.5" peat pots filled with sterile starting medium, sitting on the kitchen table. I want to give her my "this is what plants need" speech and make her poke her leftover seeds into a hole in the ground with a little manure, but if Crayola says that you do it the other way, then they must be right. Can you swap out the fake soil in the kit for some from your garden outside? If your mom's anything like mine, she'd never notice. It's a bummer how much companies want to capitalize on children's fascination with growing things, only to make it harder to be successful in the long run and make the kids want to give up.

Thanks for the welcome! You really can get so much more out of a garden than just saving money at the grocery store, when you take it all into account, especially when you live in what feels like the middle of nowhere. I'm hoping to make some trades with various small business owners around here this summer, too--stuff they have that I'd love but can't afford for produce that they can't buy locally (especially one couple who's very anti-Monsanto). Various family members keep wanting to get us the Baby Einstein farm and nature videos, because otherwise how will my little guy ever know that birds lay eggs in nests and that plants grow in the ground? *shudder* So much more value than just nutrition, which is plenty of reason in itself, when you look outside the box a little!