Planting Seeds

This morning, Lon stayed home from school. He is still not feeling well. He is getting better. I thought that starting some of the seeds for our garden would be a good idea! I saved the plastic insert from the Lego Advent calendar. We took the paper part off to recycle. I thought the little wells would be perfect for seeds. Lon is learning about recycling in school, and this made him feel like he is putting what he is learning into practice.

Basil goes in next.  The first row was two wells of green pepper and two wells of pumpkin.  Lon loves basil, so we did four wells of basil.

Getting the seeds out of the packet

Putting seeds in dirt. This part is pretty cool

Adding seeds is good. He might have added a few too many, but we can thin them out when they sprout. He picked out the seed packet. These basil plants are all his.

In our advent calendar, we planted green peppers, pumpkins, basil, roma tomatoes, grape tomatoes (yellow and red variety), beefsteak tomatoes, and two wells of beets. I have two wells left to plant, but I have to get seeds for those. I even saved the popscicle sticks!  Now for some sun and in about two weeks we should have seedlings! By the time the weather warms up enough we should have plants big enough to plant outside in the dirt.  Now we are hoping for a bumper crop of tomatoes this year, and basil, and beets, green peppers and pumpkins!