Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Hey we have a mo-mato


We have tomatoes... Our porch gets sun only until 1 pm... so when I put tomatoes in Hopes garden this year I knew we might not get any tomatoes at all... but we do... Hope has been guarding her little hoard of mo-matoes ... waiting for them to turn red... One of our plants didn't make it...

I haven't pulled it out... but it definately is sick... and needs to go... but the plant that was created (hybrid) is beautiful...


I want one of these little birds so bad...
They are adorable...



On Friday Hope goes to a specialist to see if he can figure out what is wrong ... I hope it is something simple...

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Aliens Growing in My Kitchen


It wasn't that long ago... that I read somewhere to let your kids grow a sweet potato plant in a mason jar. It just so happened that I had a volunteer sweet potato on my cake plate stand where I keep lonely fruits and veggies. It had already started to sprout leaves. So I figured we would see what happened... At first it was so fun to see the roots grow... We could almost see them growing each time we walked into the kitchen... The plant took also wanted me to water it each time I was in there... It was amazing how much water a growing plant uses...





Now the sweet potato is very large and turning into a vine. I am not sure what to do with it next... I don't know what I was thinking would happen, but now it seems like the sweet potato vine is taking over and influencing other plants to sprout... Look at my onions....






And now I have a potato that wants to be grown too... Either way... We have had lots of fun growing our little kitchen alien... Maybe we will try carrots next...