Gardening Apartment Style or Parenting 101

A few weeks ago, Jared came home from teaching with a strawberry plant. A group had come in to teach the 7th graders how to plant and take care of strawberries. So we have been taking great care of our first plant - which is looking great. Today, Jared met me at the car with 7 vegetable plants - 5 tomato plants (all different flavors!) and 2 bell pepper plants. The biology club at IUPUI was having a fund raiser - 7 plants for $2.00. On our way home we stopped by the store for all of the supplies we would need to help our plants to grow big and strong. While we had a great time shopping, it was a little sad to have to buy rocks and dirt. Anyway, once we got home we started putting together our "garden."

Jared would get the soil all ready for our plant.

Then I would add a little water.

And voila - we now have a garden!!!!

As we were getting ready for bed, I was a little worried about our plants being out on the patio. So, Jared and I went to check on our "kids." We decided it might be a little too cold and windy for them to stay outside. So, our plants spent the night nice and warm and inside. Jared and I have decided that having a garden may be awesome parent training as well!!!