Week 2-ish: and then the Cold Snap

Week 2ish

It was in the kitchen that I received a disbelieving look from my Chicago transplant of a husband when I brought home a newly purchased a seed starter, some seeds of cucumber, tomato, basil, and cilantro along with a few dahlia roots, ‘for color’…this little experiment wasn’t something he expects to go well, and given the look I don’t believe he expects that my roughly $25.00 investment is worth the money or the work, time will tell I suppose…

I must say though by Week 3, after watching the dried up little disks of peat moss ‘grow’ and after I planted the seeds a couple of weeks ago, my husbands faith in my gardening abilities has grown, especially after listening to me squeal like a child when I saw little leaves sprouting in the seed tray taking up valuable counter space in out kitchen.

After that, I let them grow a bit more and then commandeered two coffee mugs and an egg carton and filled up my kitchen window with sprouting plants…this was a good and bad thing, good because the plants had more room to grow, light air etc…but bad, because I still hadn’t gained any counter space and my coffee-loving husband had lost “two good mugs”.