Green thumb

My roommate and I have decided to do something this spring that we have never done this year. Now before your mind go’s in the gutter, let me explain. We have decided have a garden of vegetables and grow flowers also. We both have helped with other peoples gardens, manly our parents, but never our own. So this will be an adventure for us.



We started by getting seeds of what we wanted. We also have been saving egg cartons too. We filled the egg cartons with soil, planted the seeds, watered them, and then placed them into a greenhouse that we have in our front porch. Now hopefully, the greenhouse will keep the plants worm and wet. By the time it is worm outside and in the ground unthaws, we will be able to cut the egg cartons apart, we can plant them. Plus, since the egg cartons are biodegradable, we won’t have to worry about taking the soil and plant out of the carton and potentially destroying it.



I am excited about this for many reasons. First of all, I have never done this before. New things are always good. Secondly, I am going to try a trick that my wonderful dad use to do in his garden. First you fill a bucket full of water. After you are done weeding your garden, throw the weeds in the bucket and let the water soak out the nutrients. It’s the same idea with cooking vegetables; don’t put too much water in so it doesn’t take the nutrients away, except it’s the opposite.