My Little Gardener

We found these really cute sesame street themed my first greenhouse kits for kids at lowes! Chloey wanted the Elmo one that grows baby tomatoes. We got it home, and she couldn't wait to get it open and start planting. It came with little dirt pods that grow when you add water, so nothing to messy to deal with.

Chloey put the included elmo stickers on the pots and put in the dirt pods. I watered them and we had to wait 5 to 10 minutes for them to fill up the pots with dirt.

when the dirt was ready she poked holes in it with her fingers and i helped her plant the seeds. we were supposed to put in 5 or 6 seeds per pot but probably ended up with about 10 in each one

after planting we put in the included label stick so we know what we planted. Chloey is very proud of her tomatoes, and cant wait for them to "grow up" (as she says) so we can eat them.

They now have grown to little one inch sprouts and she couldn't be happier that they are growing. They were doing pretty good until i looked at them this morning and they are starting to look a little shrivled....I hope i can get them to perk back up soon! If they start dying I may have to do some secret undercover switching with new ones, because she is very proud of them, and is checking them everyday for tomatoes!

I also picked up some spring flowers to put outside the house. I put them in these flower boxes and Matt made some brackets for me to hold them so they could hang on the front of the porch. I did not buy them pre-bloomed, but they have all bloomed really nicely since i planted them. I did have to bring them inside, since the weather decided to have that snow spell a couple days ago, but should be able to put them back out now. Im really happy they all are blooming so well. We also got a lilac bush and planted it out front. I cant wait for that to start blooming, I love how they smell!