Garden of Plants, Plants in a Garden
Story time. There once was an antique sewing machine. It had a knee press and had a table top when folded into it’s stand, or a long side table when popped up for use. The machine was sitting out, gathering dust for months. On the extended table rested an old bath towel. On the bath towel rested hard-covered children’s books. On the children’s books rested tin foil to catch the excess water. On the tin foil sat egg cartons. On (or in) the egg cartons was dirt. In the dirt were tiny green sprouts. I don’t know what were in the tiny green sprouts. I didn’t pay that much attention in school. These little sprouts started as seeds, and grew in my living room window, occupying my sewing machine table, for the last two and a half months. I just moved the last of them outside yesterday. I spent week after tedious week, watering, monitoring and reviving these little sprouts. About one third perished from lack of water. I just kept forgetting! They needed water every two or three days and that