Green Thumb

It's a fact that I can't go into Lowes without coming home with a new plant :) The colors and blooms call my name!! I haven't always had a green thumb - usually due to my lack of watering - but that is changing! We have 8 hooks across our porch that beg for beautiful blooming hanging plants... and that can get 'spesive! I decided to try my luck at growing plants from seed this year. The last time I tried this had to do with a science fair project ;) So I picked up some of these seed starter peat pellet kits. Seemed pretty low maintenance to me! Just add water so the peat pellets expand - then poke a hole with a pencil and bury the little seed :)

I chose seeds soley based on the pretty pictures. I was hoping to grow the plants that would grow over the hanging baskets and cascade downwards - but the guys at the hardware store weren't great in answering my question and guiding me to such varieties. So I stuck with color and bloom as my deciding factor :)

Not all the pellets produced plants, but I'm pretty darn shocked with my green thumb!! Check out the baskets!!

This one is a little harder to keep moist because the pot is so small, plus I don't think it gets as much sun. I just love the heart shaped hanger though!

What I like to call the 'jungle'. See the red leaves to the left, that's sweet potato vine that I did actually buy already growing. I love sweet potato vine and thought I'd need it to fill in some space, little did I know my little seedlings would take off!

I took all the leftover peat pellets that hadn't grown and planted them 'wall to wall' in this pot, just to see what would happen. Glad I did because these flowers started growing - I'll transplant these to fill in some spots in the baskets :)

I'm really excited at the progress!! Of course I don't know which plants are which, but hopefully they'll start blooming soon - and all summer long :)

I also planted herbs and veggies from seed - will fill you in soon on that progress soon!