Winter Garden

The littlest children and I are starting a winter garden of sorts. The first project is easy enough. We've simply taken the butt of a few carrots and a celery, placed them in a dish of water and are waiting for them to sprout leaves. One of them that already had leaves is impressing the children. We are easily impressed. :-)

The second project will be sprouting vines from a sweet potato. I can't go wrong here. They sprout easily enough in a drawer without my even trying. How hard can this be for us to do?

From there I'll have each of them make a simple container garden. We may then try to force some bulbs or possibly sprout mushrooms. From what I understand they require no upkeep! Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I got a few other ideas from the Atlanta Botanical Garden and a friend's garden. It is a wonder how nicely plants will do when they have a little attention. Hopefully these small beginnings will give the children (and myself) a little confidence so that we can cultivate some success next spring.

My friend Sara at www.ashowerofroses.blogspot.com tagged me in a game. I was supposed to count the sixth picture folder in my computer and pull up the sixth picture in the folder and post it on my blog. Unfortunately, the picture I pulled up on the computer was a not so very flattering one of my daughter Bronky. I tried a different computer and pulled up another not so very flattering picture of my daughter Tink. Were the picture of myself I wouldn't have a care, but since they are of others I'll respect them and not participate in the game this time. But, thanks Sara! This also tells me that I need to do some deleting of my picture files!