Sunday, May 19, 2013

Gardening with Max

I do not have a green thumb- at all.  Both may actually be black, since most plants I try to care for eventually die.  But, I want to break the cycle and give Max and chance to enjoy nurturing plants.  So, we did the old "dried bean in a plastic bag experiment" a couple of months ago- and right before I was about to declare it a failure we noticed that the shriveled kidney bean had started growing roots!  Then it grew leaves.  Soon it need to be freed from the plastic bag, so I replanted it in this glass jar.  Then it grew flowers!  This amazes me because it started as just a little dried kidney bean that I picked out of Max's bean box.  This weekend I gave the amazing bean plant an outside home in a real pot.  We'll see what happens!

I also bought some basil and sungold tomatoes, which are supposed to be super yummy.  Maybe with Max's help we'll actually be able to eat them later this summer!

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