Growing Stuff

Lots of parenting magazines, books, and websites suggest that growing your own vegetables and involving your kids in the process will encourage them to actually EAT vegetables. We're giving this theory a whirl at our house this summer. We bought a cheap plastic "greenhouse" to house some jiffy pots I've had in the shed for a couple years....jiffy pots are little pellets of compressed and dried dirt meant for germinating seeds.

So, I arranged them in the dry tray...

Gathered our seeds...

And called in a helper...she likes "projects"...here she's putting water in the tray...

And now the pots are absorbing water and "growing"...

Then helper #2 showed up. He doesn't help much, but he has potential...

Here's his time-out. I put the camera down to plant the seeds, and he ran away with it.

Naughty, naughty, cute little boy!

And here's helper #1 putting the top on the little greenhouse.

In a week or two, we should see some action. We planted carrots, spinach, cucumbers, and squash...also some sunflowers and cosmos. We have high hopes, but low expectations...on both our harvest and the kids' consumption of it.