Forgotten Seeds: Growing Fast

~ JodiLea

The excitement continues in my little deck garden! After seeing little wildflower sprouts coming up in the ceramic pot, now called Melvin & Heidi’s Pot, I check on them every morning and talk to them. Every day, I swear they are 1/8th inch taller than the day before. If you missed the original post about the history of these seeds, you can find a link here.

One Week Later…
Afternoon Sun Worshipers

I’m already looking forward to next week’s report.

Meanwhile, the tea rose has its first spring bud, and the avocado trees are happily growing root-bound in their pots now that they are outside in the fresh air and sunshine. I expected them to die from the fumes always present in my hubby’s shop. Gasoline, varnish, and other toxic smells are in there.

Remember Carlos? He is doing well in Castro Valley, although he is a little lonely. I plan to handle his predicament by sending Sophia home with Jason and Karla this summer.

Carlos
Sophia

It is probably only a matter of time before my family has me committed to a facility. First, I’m raising avocado trees in the Sierra Nevada. Now I am match-making these trees.

Stay tuned …

Forgotten Seeds: A Spring Gardening Surprise

~ JodiLea ~ 1 Comment

“Let Love Grow.”
That was what the green paper leaf said, attached to a small baby food jar full of wildflower seeds. I thought, “I wish I thought up something so cute to hand out at my wedding.” As soon as the snow melted for the year, I would plant them in a big fancy pot, and they would grow on my deck, along with my tea roses, ivy, and avocado trees. I kept the little jar of seeds with my gardening tools to wait for spring.

Spring never did show up that year until July. By then, I was heavily involved with other things. Camp Grandma for one. We planted fast-growing flowers like sunflowers because the girls were only with me for a week. My plans to start seedlings in the winter fizzled out due to unforeseen events. I wanted to be able to take the jar of seeds and scatter them willy-nilly around the front of the house. I even had a great flower bed I could use. Then hubby reminded me that anything planted there would be critter food – deer, bears, raccoons, turkeys, and who-knows-what-else would gobble up my flowers. Okay – next year for sure….

Fast forward (nearly a decade) to 2025. I was packing up my weeding tools, and guess what I found? A baby food jar, with a green leaf!

The label was dirty and faded, but still legible. Even the small font was readable, “Melvin & Heidi 02-28-16.”

2016! My heart sank. There was no way I would be able to open that jar. Even after hot water, tapping with a knife, rubber bands, and dishwashing gloves to help me grip the thing, nothing got it loose. Then hubby said, “Let me take it into the shop, I think I have something that will work…” He returned with an open jar of flower seeds. Yeah!

I planted a 3rd of the jar into a large pot on May 7th.
Now it is May 17th, and if you look closely at the soil in the pot, you can see tiny green sprouts.

I was not expecting this at all. Oh sure, I was hoping the seeds still had life in them. I imagined how fun it would be to send a photo to Melvin and Heidi and tell them the story.

It looks like I will be doing just that. I will wait until the sprouts grow and mature into definite plants. And pray that I don’t kill them before that.

Stay tuned for more tales from the garden…

Throwback Thursday

~ JodiLea

Remember these catchphrases used in commercials? Try to match them with the products they advertise, and send me a comment if you get them all!

“Calgon Take Me Away!”
“Don’t Squeeze the Charmin!”
“Things Go Better With Coke”
“Just Do It”
“It’s too big ta eat!”
“Betcha Can’t Eat Just One!”
“Where’s the Beef?”
“The Quicker Picker Upper”
“Have it Your Way”
“It’s Finger-Lickin” Good”

Most Disgusting Current Commercials
Hands down are the Quilted Northern commercials.
“Enjoy the Go”
Yuk!
The Jardiance song & dance they have shown that one far too many times. Adding different singers does not help.

Are there any commercials that gross YOU out? Please share them in the comments!

Happy Flower Garden