Garden Medley

Just for fun (actually because it began to rot so soon), my husband took our uncut Halloween pumpkin to the back yard and cut the top off. He gave our daughter a choice – fill the top with a few seeds and some dirt or plant the seeds in the ground.

Of course she chose both. What did you expect? She’s 4!

It will be interesting to see how they grow, if they grow and so forth. This is more of a whim than an actual attempt at growing pumpkins. If they grow, great, if not that’s fine too.

My daughter loves planting seeds just about at random. Obviously most don’t sprout. She has planted apple seeds, a nectarine seed and a few others I can’t think of right now.

Since this is the time of year when we take a break from serious gardening, especially after as poor a growing season as we had past summer, it’s fun to give control over to my daughter. She imagines she will grow all this stuff, and most of it won’t do anything at all. Fortunately, kids just love trying and failure doesn’t really matter.