It has been nearly a month since we started our vegetable garden and we thought we would see a bit more progress by now. There have been little bits of green poking through the dirt and at first Josh and I were really excited but after a while we realized we didn’t know exactly which of these green leafy things were our vegetable plants and which ones were the evil weeds. Josh knows way more than me about gardening so I leave it to him for the most part. He does all of the weeding so the garden looks very nice but there are still one or two things in our garden that he is just watching to see if they stay evil weed-like plants or if they morph into yummy vegetables!

Josh also had an idea. He decided that since a lot of his plants weren’t growing fast enough (or were they growing at all? is that a weed?) that he would replant some of them and help them along. So, he has recycled some of our food containers into plant pots and he is going to grow our little seeds in them first and then replant them. Josh labeled the containers and poked holes in the bottoms for the water to flow out when he waters them. He was very proud of his craftyness.

Oh, but his craftyness continues! What was he going to water his new plants with? He needed a watering can! He made this watering can himself! He poked holes in the bottom of it so you can fill it up in the sink and then put the cap back on to tip it upside down, carry it back outside, and tip it back up to water the plants! Isn’t he clever? You can’t really read what he wrote because it has rubbed off a little bit, but it says, “Watering can: do not recycle further!” Get it? Because he has already recycled it into a watering can!

Hopefully our plants start growing soon. Even though we are moving in a few months, this will be good practice and hopefully we’ll get at least some good vegetables by the time we leave.