April and May have been difficult gardening months this year. We have planted onions, peas, carrots, radishes and that is all. We keep waiting for the warmer weather to stay but it looks like it will just be super cold and then mega hot. Here is a picture of what we woke up to one morning. Snow everywhere. Luckily the garden survived.
So I bought some flower seeds, got some dirt from the topsoil in our yard (yes that was brought in by a truck I just have rocks) and then for my birthday we had planting day. I wish I would have taken pictures of that because we planted inside since it was raining. I spread out a sheet and the kids proceeded to dump dirt everywhere. It was fun though. After two or three days I noticed something weird about the pots. Testing confirmed that somehow we had made a type of cement out of dirt. We couldn't poke anything through the dirt and even after watering it just didn't work out.
Lesson learned was this: if I do seeds again I will buy planting soil not just dirt from the yard. The kids still think that one day we will have something in the pots which is why they are still in the window sill.
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