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Dr Seuss Magic Lorax Seed

LATEST UPDATE 04-20-2012: The seeds did germinate but quickly died. It could have been neglect on my part. I told my daughter I would plant her huge sunflowers as an alternative. I think she thought this tree would be a real Lorax tree, so sunflowers were the best I could come up with.

UPDATE: I found out the Lorax seeds are Blue Spruce and White Pine Tree seeds. I will give them a try, but I dont think those trees grow very well for zone 8.

My love of vegetable gardening started in 2010 when me and my then 3 year old daughter started our first garden. Her interest quickly faded and by the end of that summer I was bitten by the gardening bug. She still shows some interest (mainly to appease me), but I understand talking about my germination rates and yields per square foot isnt exactly stimulating conversation.

Fast forward to our dinner this past Friday at the IHOP. They gave us a little card that had a "magical seed" from Dr. Seusss new movie "The Lorax". I have never seen my daughter so interested in planting a seed in her whole life. She couldnt stop talking about it, and I quickly reminded her that I have been asking her to plant seeds with her daddy for the last few years. I will admit my seeds dont look as cool as this one.

So today we planted that special seed and I am kind of curious to see what kind of seed it actually is. For those of you gardeners with kids, it might be worth a trip to IHOP to get your kids fired up about gardening. I think it is a great idea, and I thank IHOP and whoever came up with it.

Disclaimer:
This also marks the first time I have posted a picture of my daughter on my blog. In spite of having a gardening blog, I am a very private person when it comes to social networking and my personal life. I have no facebook, twitter, linkedin, or any other social networking account. I am excited to share these pictures of her with my close blogging friends, but I may not talk about or post about her often.

Here is the front of the seed card, that is one cool looking seed.

The directions said soak for 24 hours, we didnt see that so we only soaked ours about 6 hours.

Here is my little girl filling up the pot all by herself.

She is growing up so fast.

She cant wait to see what this seed is.

Dr Seuss Magic Lorax Seed

Asparagus From Seed

Look what I have!!! I planted asparagus from seed last year and waited and waited for one of these babies to pop up. I finally gave up when a funny little fern-like plant came up instead. I was actually going to pull it out when I noticed that there were matching ones in all the other places I planted the seeds so I left them and waited for a sprig of asparagus to come up anyway. Well, not having grown this before, my wait was in vain. The first year you wont get the actual spears, you only get the plants. Then this year I got one or two of these near each of the mother plants. The instructions say to dig them up and lay them in shallow trenches covering them with more dirt as they grow but I am bucking the system and doing it my own way. I planted them in rows and spaced them appropriately so I am leaving them right where they are. They are in one of the shallower 4x10 raised beds and I plan to leave them there for all eternity. These things grow wild on ditch banks all over Idaho and I figure I can grow them without too much fuss if mother nature can do it with no effort at all. I wont be able to harvest any of the spears this year either. I will let them go to seed to propagate more plants and maybe a very light harvest next season. By the fourth year I should be good to go. I would love to have a much larger space for this veggie as my whole family loves it so maybe I will dedicate a spot in the new (humongous) row garden. We will have to see. For now I was excited to see my patience pay off. Yeah!

Asparagus From Seed