Garden Project

As you may know, Drew and I have a dream that we will one day have a backyard where we can have our very own vegetable garden.  Now, the only issue is that I've never grown a thing in my life, except for maybe some grass.  Luckily, Drew has more experience in this area and he is assuring me that it is not difficult.

I'm getting antsy, so we set out to find something for me to grow.  With it being January, my options are a bit limited.  We did find a packet of lettuce that seemed to say that you could start growing it indoors in February or March.  Lettuce it is!  And no, I'm not waiting until February or March.  We went ahead and got it going.

Besides starting these too early, we also weren't able to find normal potting soil, so we ended up with more of a mulch-like substance.  Not sure how that is going to work, but here is our set up.

As you can see, we have set up different variables.  Some of our paper cup pots are by the door and some are by the kitchen window.  For half of them we buried the seeds and the other half we sprinkled. We have one pot that the strongest looking plant can inherit when it is ready to graduate from the cup.

I have prepared myself that probably nothing will come of this experiment due to the bad soil and cold weather.  But guess what??  Today I see a sprout coming out of a seed!!  It's alive!!

Can you see it?  I'm still unsure if it will survive long enough to become anything of substance, but I'm excited to find out.