carrots!

Now, you will probably all think I'm silly because of this post, but I don't mind.  I wanted to try an experiment, so I did.  The mister found it difficult to hide his mild contempt at my eccentricity, but he did a splendid job, and I expect you all to appreciate my experiement, as well.

 

It all started when I found this post on Pinterest, which led me to this blog post.

 

Do you see why I was interested?

 

I'm sure many of you know that, at the moment, we live in a teensy studio apartment and space is limited.  My only room for a "garden" is on one particular windowsill in our little 2'x4' "kitchen." Exciting!

 

So, what's a girl to do when she wants to garden but doesn't have space?!  She does it anyway!

 

I followed the ideas/directions in the post, in my own way.  I  picked up a bottle of soda on sale, shared it with the hubby for a few days, chopped off the top with some scissors (yes), left the label on to protect the dirt from too  much sun, and planted carrots! Yes, carrots!

 

Here's what they looked like last week when I was feeling snap-happy with my camera:

 

 

Aren't they cute?! They've germinated and everything!

 

Since then, the little tops are bigger than ever and even have real leaves.  They're 68-day-cycle carrots, so I can't "harvest" for a while, but it's a fun little project/experiment.

 

I threatened to line the other windowsill with bottles of carrots, but that suggestion was vetoed. Guess bigger harvests of veggies will have to continue to wait until I have an actual garden.  C'est la vie. One bottle at a time.

 

Happy Monday!