Seed to Plant

Well it has been 37 days and we have our first plant passing us in height!! We planted our seeds the 2nd week of summer vacation. After two weeks of watching them grow we decided it was time to move them into a more permanent home. Each child has been watering and caring for their very own plant. Today Addison's passed her in height!! We are so excited. We have been charting thier measurements each week. We are amazed.... they have doubled in size from last Monday's measurements!!! We will be on vacation next week and will be hoping for some rain showers while we are away. I cannot wait for the day we see a little sunflower "head" pop out.

What a great and exciting experiment this has been for all of us. Please take some time to check your child's plant out the next time you are here.

GOOD soil makes HEALTHY plants!

First of the week we started saving our food scraps in hopes of starting a compost pile! Plus the children learned this is just another form of RECYCLING. But this is even cooler than what we do with all of our plastics, paper, and glass. We get to do the DIRTY work!!! The compost pile if fed and taken care of will help us make GOOD SOIL. It gives mother nature a helping hand and speeds up the natural process of decomposition. We learned that it isn't a very good idea to put in meats or dairy in it because that will attract a few critters we'd rather not meet! So as the week progressed we put in lots of vegetable, fruit, and bread leftovers.......and my bin from upstairs was full of coffee and tea grounds which made it look a bit scary! We all agreed that each bin began to smell more and more like YUCK...as it filled up. And that brought up the question....will the compost smell and I've read that if taken care of it properly it will not so......we will turn it periodically and continue to add food scraps and yard debris! The kids have loved this experiment.