First "Green" of the Season

I must be pretty desperate for growth! I just had to take a picture of this. It's my son's marigold. We went to a literacy night at his school. They read "The Empty Pot" and sent them home with a paper cup with seeds in them. This one came up and made me happy to see the first signs of Spring...even if it is only in my kitchen.

We are going to create a garden for each of our children that is big enough to walk and take care of one. They are so excited! We bought them some seeds and they can't wait. It should be a great opportunity for them to get outside, care for something and learn along the way. I love to teach them about the things I love! They get to choose the plants, collect the rocks, weed and water their own garden.

I hope they love it as much as I do!

How many plants are needed to breathe?

I found this when I was looking for something totally unrelated. You have to scroll down to nearly the bottom. It says that the oxygen produced by 45 tomato plants, or 625 sq. ft. of grass produce enough oxygen for one person to breathe for one day! Cool, random and useless fact for the day: I like it!

Welcome!

We are going ahead with the class with a small group! If you have any friends that would like to join us, just tell them to come and they can sign up that night! I'd love to have them!

Come check this blog often, I'll try to have new posts regularly.

If you found this blog and don't belong to the community class that I am teaching, Welcome!! I'd love for you to learn along with me, ask questions and make any comments or suggestions that you'd like to!

It may not take...

I went to the school district building to make the copies for the first night of class and I was told that there were only 3 people signed up to take my horticulture class this time. There have to be 8 by tomorrow at noon for it to go. I hope there are more!!

I'm still keeping this up!

I just wanted to let you know that I am going to keep updating this blog. I started it to go along with the community horticulture class that I taught. I have really enjoyed it and I have learned a lot as well. I hope you keep coming back! If you have any questions, just ask. Feel free to leave comments as well!!

Check this out!! Lots of neat sites!!

I found some various sites that look pretty neat, so even though they may have nothing to do with each other, here they are:

Edible Flowers Chart (I'm not sure of the credibility...)

Flowering Perennials:Characteristics and Culture

Home Gardening (Links to extension information)

Luring Butterflies to your Garden

Morning Glory is Gory

Utah Native Plant Society

Biological Control

Killer Plants (Botanical info--not poisonous plants)

Monthly Garden Projects

New Books

I added the Mix and Match book to the side bar as well as two books with water wise plants. Water Wise was published by Utah State and has lot of great information and plants. Not all of the plants listed in Water Wise are readily available to buy, since many of them are difficult to grow or are just not being grown by many people, now. The xeriscape plant guide a lot of plants as well. All three books have great pictures.