Recycled Seed Starter

Spring has sprung and that means we can all get back outside for some much-needed fun and sunshine. One of my favorite ways to get my kids active in the spring is to get them out in the sun helping me bring our yard back to life. We love to spend time outside and we love to enjoy our beautiful backyard while we do it. As you can imagine the winter tends to take a toll on the beautiful yard. Everything has gone dormant during this long cold winter we had. On the bright side, we had such a wet Winter that the earth is ready for spring and some very beautiful flowers. That is why we are so excited to start planting.

We usually spend the first couple of weekends in Spring cleaning up the yards and preparing our spring planting. While we do plant a lot of things right in the ground there are some things we like to start as seedlings in a small pot and then transfer when they are larger. We love to do this with some of our herbs, and the flowers we are worried about planting before we are sure the cold weather has truly gone for the season.

We love to create our seedlings in water bottles. We simply make them into perfect little irrigation systems and they are easy to tote in and outside depending upon the light and temperature. no easy way to do this is with a recycled water bottle. Head on over to Glad for a great tutorial on how to do this. It not only is a great way to interact with your kids this Spring, it is also a fantastic way to teach them about recycling and why it is so important! The entire project is the epitome of Spring -- finding something and giving it a new purpose, a rebirth, and the blossoming of something great!