Last year we wanted to start a garden, so we could produce some nice fresh veggies over the summer....we failed! Our seedlings did great, but didn't work so well transplanting them outside. This year we are back at it, with hopefully more success. We are going to attempt starting from seeds again and if that fails - we will buy ones already started! Today we started our seeds. Check out the Target $1 bins for the little containers we used. We planted pumpkins, green peppers, eggplant, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, summer squash, watermelon and winter squash.
I also found these cute little flower cups in the $1 bins at Target. We did some last year too, they are packaged so nicely with a compressed pellet of soil, add a tablespoon of warm water and poof! magic soil.
After all that planting we decided to make a special treat for the birds. Bummer I forgot to grab a pic of the birds nest that was made in our watering can. The girls for the past few weeks have told me, "Mom there are sticks in there". I never took a look until this past week and yes lots of sticks in there. That bird is living snug in there. We haven't been able to see if there are any eggs in there but I am guessing there are.
On to our treat. We covered empty toilet paper rolls with peanut better then rolled them in a bird seed mix. The girls each made two, we placed two of them on trees in the backyard and the other two we placed in the little bird feeder/bath that my big bee made at the Home Depot a few weeks ago with Daddy Bee.
On to our treat. We covered empty toilet paper rolls with peanut better then rolled them in a bird seed mix. The girls each made two, we placed two of them on trees in the backyard and the other two we placed in the little bird feeder/bath that my big bee made at the Home Depot a few weeks ago with Daddy Bee.
After dinner we ended the evening with a visit to the Penn State Arboretum and a trip to the Creamery. Check out some sneak peaks of what will be the NEW Childrens' Garden.