The Gregor Family: Proud of her garden

Monday, July 12, 2010

Proud of her garden

Kaylee has loved having her little garden off the patio. It has mostly just had different flowers and our strawberry plants. A few months ago we added a few new additions and they are now doing very well. Every time Kaylee goes outside she loves to check on her garden and water the plants.

On Easter Memaw gave Kaylee a tiny little pot and sunflower seeds to plant. They planted a bunch in the small pot and they had a few seeds left over so they just planted them in the garden. The ones in the pot also grew but the pot was way to small for them to grow past about two inches high and they just died. I should have transplanted them right away. The ones in the garden also started growing and just a few days ago we finally got a beautiful sunflower. She is so proud!

Here is Kaylee with her corn plant. This was actually a project they did at school maybe last April or early May. They took popcorn kernels and put them in a plastic sandwich bag with wet cotton balls. The teachers handed them out at the end of class one time with no explanation. At that time they maybe had sprouted about an inch or two high. Not knowing what to do with them, or what they were, I asked about them at the end of class. They told me they were just popcorn kernels....from right out of a jar. They told me to plant them in the ground soon and they will grow a corn plant. I had no idea that a popcorn kernel would grow a corn plant.....I thought you would actually have to plant regular corn kernels to get a corn plant?? Well, we kept them in her window for about another week in the bag and then we tried planting them. I thought I would have killed them right away but they have grown about another foot taller and seem very happy. It will be interesting to see if we actually get any corn. Of course I have to water them like crazy!