Lil' Gardener

This spring Melissa & I have thoroughly enjoyed the 'Lil' Gardener' class offered by the AgRec. I started documenting some of her more interesting plant crafts weekly and have compiled them here for your viewing!

Week 1 

Flower seeds in a painted pot:

Grass Guy: 

(You can note at week three the grass was having a really hard time pushing through the reinforced toe of the nylon stocking. I ended up having to provide it with some much needed relief by trimming off the top. I'm not sure how much further his face could have stretched!)

Melissa has enjoyed practicing her hairdresser skills on her Grass Guy. She is very cautious and doesn't take many risks when it comes to his hair maintenance. She is more concerned about keeping it all pretty much even. Maybe one day she will be good enough to do my hair!?

Week 2 

A terrarium of sorts: 

Sunflower seeds:

Week 3 

Vegetables:

(Carrots, tomatoes & peas. On the walk home from class two of the cups tipped over and seeing I hadn't watered the dirt, they spilled everywhere. I did my best to put them back together, but the tomato plant never did sprout. We had a later casualty with the carrots, I transplanted them outdoors and one morning we went to look at them and saw the slug that had eaten all of them for lunch. Grrrr.) 

Week 4

This week I brought my camera to class and took some photos of her in action. Here Melissa is decorating a little pot...

and filling it with dirt...

Flower seeds:

Week 5 

Cedar saplings:

Week 6

Hand-print garden stepping stone:

There were quite a few more projects we made, but these were the more interesting ones. It has been a blast for both Melissa and I to enjoy watching plant-life grow from seeds. Now most of her plants have now moved on outdoors and she takes great pride watering them with the big garden hose! I have such a great little helper ;)