Yesterday was such a pretty, warm day that I decided to go ahead and do my garden starts.  It was the perfect activity for the kids to help with…and since it was so nice outside, we worked on the deck, which meant that all the dirt stayed outside.  (As opposed to last year.)  I’ve been reading some blogs on gardening, so I decided to try one of the ideas I’d read about using toilet paper rolls, cutting them in circles and planting seeds inside of them…this way, once the seed grows, you can just put the whole thing into the ground and the paper will disintegrate- cool, huh? 

Here’s all our starting materials.

All the kids got a cup that they filled with dirt to fill the circles…

The girls were very serious about their job.

And yes, I do realize that two out of five of my children were still in pajamas….it’s Spring Break!!  =)

So here’s our “finished” product.  We planted beans, carrots and cucumber seeds.   The egg cartons were an idea that I got last year…but the idea with them is the same…when the seeds grow, I can just cut them apart and plant the whole thing since they will also disintegrate into the soil.  I actually planted my peas  a couple weeks ago and they are finally starting to poke their heads up!  Today I’m going to plant some broccoli seeds and when I can find them I want to do some sweet onions.  Oh how I love sweet onions!  After we got all the seeds onto that table and watered them, I then wrapped the table in saran wrap to make a homemade green house….it seemed to be working well yesterday.   We just don’t have the space, nor the sunlight indoors to do seed starts.  But the deck is nice and sunny.  I’ll let you know how it works!