Homemaking911
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Mar. 3, 2008
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In the Garden
This month the girls have started to pour over gardening books and planted some herbs in pots. Everyone wants to garden when it's cold, but weeding in August is a different thing!
For a fun, easy gardening project for children, get an old five gallen bucket and drill some holes for drainage. Put some rocks in the bottom, Fill it 1/3 with dirt and bury a seed potato (tuber) in the dirt. As soon as the little plants start to grow, cover them with a little more dirt. Once the threat of frost is past, put your bucket outside. Keep adding dirt or straw to the top of the plant to almost the top of the bucket, then let the plants grow. Keep them comfortably moist. Potatoes should have formed within 12-14 weeks of planting. Carefully lift the plant and pick any large ones, replacing the plant with small potatoes still intact so that they can continue growing.
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