Plants... Alive, but soon to be dead, perhaps?

So, at school Jamie is learning about the life cycle of a plant. Cassie is all flower crazy. Me? I'm scared. I kill everything that I look at sideways.

So, we have the avocado seed thing - that I'm convinced isn't actually going to do anything, and now we have several other things going on...

These are some little $1 mini pot things we found at Target. 2 are tomatoes and 2 are strawberries. I've been watering these things for over a week now. There's a little tiny green shoot sticking up, but I'm starting to wonder if it's a weed or something. Nothing else is happening. On the right is a cutting from a wandering jew plant to see if it roots. If it does, I figure it will be cool to show the kids. Then I can plant it and kill for good.



We ended up moving the little one into the pot with the big one... but these are flowers the kids picked up at Red Barn. I knew we needed something already flowering because there's little to no chance of something we sow actually growing. The others have sunflowers, straw flowers, snapdragons and other strawberries/tomatoes in them. One of the pots (don't know which one) has already had something digging in it (I bet a squirrel so I'm thinking they are eating the seeds. The kids keep watering it though. So far the flowers are still alive, and we have big pots of dirt.



These were my idea. I know I'll have to replace them when they die. Plants die at my house. It's what we do. But they are really pretty now! We put out hanging plant(s) once or twice a year... but haven't here yet, so this should be interesting...



... this all started because the kids decided they wanted to plant a veggie garden and dude, there's no way... so we compromised on this.

Oy.