Chuck's Green Thumb*

Around the house we have spent the last couple of weeks doing a little yard work here and there. We've been killing weeds, pulling up dead plants, and even planting some seeds and plants. We've also had to work on our drip system a little bit too (now you know why we had dead plants). Our sweet little puggles like to chew off the heads on the drip line and we had quite a few geysers shooting all over the place. Rather than fix them right away, I turned off the drip system and a lot of our plants started dying. Well we finally got around replace the drip line heads and also plugged up any line where bushes no longer existed.

Our Dahlia Seedlings

If you know a little about Chuck, you'll know he spent most of his childhood living up in the mountains of California. He didn't grow up with a yard that had a lawn or had many plants to take care of. His yards were mostly pine needles. When we moved into our house 4 years ago, it was his first time ever using a lawn mower and he took ownership of it. ( I made the mistake of mowing the lawn one day and he wasn't very happy that I stole his job)

This is what they should look like

So a couple of weeks ago we decided to replant the planters in our front yard. We decided to go with seeds of dahlias, forget me nots, poppies and I don't remember the forth one. It seemed like it was taking forever for them to sprout and in our impatience we decided to plant some actual plants.

As it came time to plant our flowers, Chuck turns to me and asks me how to do it. I chuckled a bit and remembered he has literally never done this before. I showed him how and to our dismay as we dug up the dirt, little seedlings had been growing and they just hadn't broken through the dirt yet.

Gazania, our full grown plants

We decided to check our other planters to see if there were any signs of life and to our surprise the other three planters all had green sprouts peeking through the soil. Hurray! Now we just need to keep them alive!






*Not to be confused with Chuck Green's thumb (who is Chuck's uncle and namesake)