Hi fellow NM Fam,
Today we have gotten some results with our little food growing operation! Loving the little sprouts!
Little Sprouts
One of the fun things about having young children in my opinion is getting to do things that we take for granted as adults but the kids find absolutely fascinating! Recently we decided, more myself than my wife lol, that I wanted to help the little man plant some stuff from seed to watch it develop and grow! We got some nice organic soil and some seeds from the store so we figured let's take a step to teaching him how food grows!
The process has been a little challenging because of where we live, we don't have a lot of room so the piece of wood that the plants are sitting on has been knocked over a few times and dirt has been spread all over the floor lol makes for one messy rug! Thankfully it's only dirt so we pick up what we can, put it back and just vacuum the rest.
The other day I woke up before our son as I usually do and stopped over to look at the plants and was very happy to see the little sprouts popping up! I was more excited to see the reaction on his face as he saw it and the different ones around that were starting to grow. He was absolutely enthralled with it! He was chomping at the bit to wake my wife up to show her the amazing results of what we planted only a week or less ago.
We mostly have just cucumbers and basil here for now until we can get some more things going. The cucumber plants are aggressive! They are sprouting up like mad, the biggest plants are all cucumber plants here lol. The two small ones are basil plants just crawling along but that's fine.
The important thing for me is to be able to show our son that some of the best things in life require time, effort and dedication. Growing plants isn't the easiest thing to do but it's completely worth it if you spend the time to do it, you can have an unlimited source of nutrients right at your finger tips with the right methods!
Our son has had a lot of fun with the plants and it's given him something to do every day that is part of his routine. He wakes up and waters the little sprouts with his spray bottle every morning, waters them again at lunch and once before bed. The spray bottle was far more effective at watering them just the right amount so it doesn't soak right through and end up on the floor so I was glad that I thought of it in order to not make a mess but be better for the plants as they are growing. I like that it also gives him a little structure to his day, there are set things he knows he needs to do to benefit him and us in the long run. Having it be something he enjoys doing is a nice benefit!
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