handsful

It’s a busy season here in our home, and there are many things on my mind and on my plate. So, blogging time has been lacking.

Even with my head in full whirl, I managed to do something last week that I’d been meaning to do for 2 years. Marley’s been helping me – the lover of all things living. Two homeschool conferences ago, I purchased a kit called Nut-Bush. Basically, the idea is you grow peanut plants that can eventually be transplanted into the ground for your very own peanut harvest. Neat, and the kit was only $2. Can’t beat that.

Here it is in the early stages, you can see one root starting to pop out. This was about 2 days after we “planted” them in the red yarn.

A couple of days later, and you can see the roots reaching to the bottom already.

Took this picture just a minute ago. The leafy parts at the top are starting to show. These things grow FAST. Once we’ve got all of them sprouting up, we can plant them in the dirt. Hey…did you know that the peanuts grow underground? But, not on the roots. They grow on shoots that come off the stem and go into the ground. God is so creative, don’t you think?

Marley also has a couple of caterpillars that she found chomping on the leaves of my tomato plant. We now have them in a butterfly cage and are feeding them tomato leaves.

Should be interesting to see how the peanuts and caterpillars turn out :)