one dollar!

ok, so you know the $1 bins at the front of target? mmm hmm, you know the ones. you can buy just about everything that you would never think of, and it's only one dollar! well today we found quite the find.

chris and i were wandering pretty aimlessly around target, and we ended up back at the front of the store at the dollar bins. this is how i remember the story, chris may have a different version, but he's not typing so he has no say :) we saw these little tiny pots with dirt and seeds in them (remember, only one dollar!) and chris says something to the extent of 'wow, that doesn't look like a good idea.' well, i really like to prove him wrong...i really, really like to. it's pretty hard to do, because he knows a little bit about everything, and i do mean everything. BUT so far i think i'm better at growing things than he is (based soley on the fact that i have plants growing at my house and he doesn't. well ok, he does have plants growing at his house, but mine started from seeds that i planted by myself, and i take care of them and they are still growing!) so, of course i need to prove him wrong. so i picked up a pot of sweet red pepper seeds and one of sunflowers.

i got them home tonight and decided to plant them. i kind of figured that i would just add water and it would be ready, but turns out there was a little more work than that. the soil was dehydrated and squished (that's a technical term) into a nice little cylinder. i read the directions (i know, right? go figure!) and soaked the soil in water. it exploded! there was so much soil packed into that little geometrical shape. i put the now wet soil into the pot, put the seeds in, and then put a little bit more soil on top. one of them came in its own little greenhouse (the sunflowers) and the other one did not. but, the sunflowers came in a dinky little plastic pot, and the red peppers came with a terra cotta pot. so, let the growing begin!

i'll try to keep you updated on the growing of my new fabulous plants. maybe i'll even show you pics of my sweet basil and some other kind of flowers that i forgot the names of. they've been growing for quite a few weeks now, but they started from seeds.

ok, i think this is what happens when you live by yourself in the middle of nowhere...i blog about seeds.