Starts

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By James Morford

age 13 

This year my siblings and I started to save money to buy a pony. We started plant starts for planting in our garden to sell the produce. To start the plants, we soaked Peat Moss pellets in warm water until they were about an inch tall, then we put the pellets in Pellet trays, planed the seeds we wanted to sprout in them, and put them in a little greenhouse.


It took them a long time to sprout but eventually (about two weeks) they did. You can start any plant you want, but not all of them will live.


A few months later, our starts were really big.


Sometimes the starts have too much water and grow five inches tall. After the starts had mature leaves (about a month after they sprouted), we transplanted them into bigger pots. Not all the starts lived through the transplanting, but most of the starts did.

I am growing a melon garden with the starts we started. I also found an acorn up the canyon and started it in a little white pot with some potting soil and now it is a two inch oak tree. This picture is of the tree.

I love the ability God gave me to start starts and grow a garden. I am so grateful for everything I can do here where I live.

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