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Alright so a few days ago my honey badger/sunflower bunny/MIK, came home. It was great to have him here and show off my little seedies to him. Of course he thinks that its silly no doubt, or my obsession with them is. I think I told him at least ten times how excited I was that, get this, THE CUMIN HAS SPROuTED!!!! Soooo exciting. That's right, two little cumin sprouts.

Now, now some of you might not know just what a cumin plant is good for an apothecary. Wellll, I don't know either! HAhaha, so I'm going to use this time to tell you.

Alright, so first off, apparently as a tea it aids with acute stomach pain. More tea making ^^ And of course this time I get to find out what flavors go with the taste. According to my sources, its a spicy little seed, so making a tea from it should be a new experience. It can help with flatulence, indigestion, diarrhea, nausea, morning sickness, and atonic dyspepsia, AND great for tumors in small animals. If I'd known that I would definitely have been growing cumin before when my aunt's bunny rabbit 'Bean' got sick.

Ooooo! I just found some hugely good news for my sunflower bunny, Mikki. According to several sites, cumin is good for the kidneys and livers. Now this might not seem so oddly amazing but you have to take into consideration, the HSP. Lately the henoch schonlein purpura has been tearing apart his kidneys lately. There has been a large about bleeding there and I think that perhaps if I could get him to try some cumin tea that perhaps it might just help him a little bit. Now the trick is getting Mikki to try it because well, to put it plainly the man does not like tea, nor does he like homeopathic remedies, but I think if I give him this expression, O_O He might just do it so that I'll stop giving him creepy stares.

Also it helps with lung pains, and that's something I REALLY need. I've been using an inhaler and steroids to open up my lungs for years. Anything I can try to help makes me a happy girl. Hopefully I just make the tea tolerate.

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Oh and also for the record. I went to the storage last night and retrieved some pots. his morning I checked to make sure that I had all my soil and such. I'm going to wait until Saturday before potting though because I would like the seedlings to raise up a bit higher. They are still a bit short.

Tomorrow! I am taking my pouch of things to Chris and Kelly's house so that whilst the little one's are asleep i can pull that persistent plant from the ground and pack all the leaves away into a bag. In my pouch, is going: pruning scissors, garden gloves, hand trowel, hand hoe, garbage bag, and bulbs! I don't know if tomorrow I'll get far enough into the cleaning process to plant yet, BUT I want to be prepared.

For those of you who don't understand why this means so much to me. In all honesty its a lot more about finally being able to give something to Chris and Kelly after all the things they have done for me. After the two years I have spent working for them, they have taken such good care me as a person. Paying my doctor's bill when I got sick, and just the way they treat me. They are good people. I want to give them a beautiful garden.

Strawberry Fields

That's right guys, very little to update other than, STRAWBERRIES!!! The have popped up quite cute and small like like everything that's growing. Other than that, just a quick update. I have procured a hand trowel and a little hand hoe as well for Friday's endeavors whilst the kids nap. Gonna get some bags and finally get rid of all the leaves!

So Many

Oh its glorious my friends! The Bellflowers! The Bellflowers have sprouted. They are sooo tiny, and they are so incredibly small that I barely was capable of taking their picture, but I wanted to document their greatness. There's so many. I was so worried about the little guys that they weren't going to sprout, but I never expected them to be so small considering they are suppose to get about 12 inches tall. They are of course for the garden plot, not for the house, but still very exciting.

Anyway after the discovery this morning that the bellflowers had sprouted I went about checking on all the happy little babies and low and behold! Both the basil and the poor man's weather glass have grown the same height and look at them!

It has been such a wonderful Saturday. Apart from the bigness of all this, I just realized that the sunflowers, awesomely huge as they are, the roots are all puffy and fuzzy. Very neat.

Making an Appearance is...

That's right, the basil!

I'm so proud of them. Of the six seed pellets so far, 4 have peeked forth from the dirt. I'm so happy to see them. They are so tiny! I had not a clue that they'd be this much smaller than the other kinds of basil I have grown, but they are miniatures. The Poor Man's Weather Glasses are somewhat poking from the dirt as well, but I can't yet focus the camera on them since they are so wee as well. But on the other hand, look at THIS! This fellow has reared his ugly head and said HELLO!!!! Lovely sunflowers, I just can't wait until they are strong enough and I've tended their space enough to plant them. Very, VERY exciting.

Speaking of the planting place ^^ I purchased some garden gloves finally so yanking up the defiant beast of a thorny bush can be removed. As well as buying some bulbs! I though about it a bit and decided that I'm gonna use the large rocks in the garden as separators! Kind of? Its a theory. But I got dahlias for the spot and we'll see how they turn out. Very exciting people, this week looks great!

Look at the Babies!!!

AWwwww look at all the beautiful little sunflowers!

First Day of Spring!!

Its awe inspiring! It's amazing! It's... SUPER SEED! It's almost like having my very own present for the first day right? I mean its so huge and strong looking. This one is a sunflower. One of TWO sunflowers that have popped forth from their tray. I'm so proud. I try really hard every year to put myself down and tell myself my first sprouts are no way going to actually sprout so that when they do, BAM! I'm all excited, but somehow, I had an inkling about this group of seeds. I mean they are as excited to get into the ground as I am to put them there!

Speaking of, I took a before picture of the garden spot that was so wonderfully provided to me, tada! A perfect spot if I do say so myself! I have already pulled those whitish yellow reed things. I had aid from the most adorable little gardeners. Sarah, Jonathan, and Emma. Sarah was more interested in the spiky plant that I couldn't get out of the ground without first getting myself some garden gloves, but I think it was because it was the only plant I wouldn't let her fiddle with. Jonathan and Emma preferred the leaf raking part. It looks nicer now, but next is the huge rock removal.

Very VERY! Exciting.

Oh and then of course, as of yesterday we began the next step of our gardening. The house plants. First it was to farm and fleet to gather some peat pellet replacements, the the window box after it was all arranged. That of course was the planning phase, but the other side of the box was arranged like thus, from left to right: Spice Basil, Cumin, Poor Man's Weather Glass, and Strawberries! That's right I tried out the cumin. Mom thinks its best to do only the herbs right now. She claims its too early yet for flowers and that they might get wind shock. Not that they are going out of doors, but you know. Anyway! That was my exciting first day of spring, how was yours?!

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The Happy Tine!

WHOOT!

That's right all today was the day! I finally planted my first seedlings. An entire container of sunflowers. Sunspot Sunflowers. I decided finally the flower choices for the 'plot' I was given. Its a flower bed in the back yard of my wondrous employers Chris and Kelly. Its a stretch about 8 to 12 feet by about 3. A very nice spot. And I've decided to do three kinds of flowers in a tier. Starting with the tallest, the Sunspot sunflowers, which I'd like you to know the seeds were huge! Had to plant them a whole inch into the peat pellets, I hope it works. The next tier is a lovely white flower called a bellflower. Suppose to be very nice accent flowers. Those were the other ones I planted. Those things seeds were so small I didn't know how many I actually put into the little pellets. Lots of seeds to be weeded out once they pop up. The third tier hasn't been planted yet, those will be multi colored fancy pansies. All large flowers.

Anyway, the process was fun, I missed getting dirt under my nails. Tomorrow, I am going to take Sarah and Jonathan into the backyard to work on the flower bed. Work to be done: Weeding, tilling, edging. Hopefully the first will get done. ^.^ Loving the nice weather! I'll keep you all updated on the sprouts. This year is gonna rock!

Special Presents

So an unexpected kindness today. Whilst out doing the laundry we stopped at Deals! the local dollar store to pick up some toilet paper. Now these people have virtually everything from oil scents to you know... pregnancy tests, to banquet dinner supplies, so while she was checking for her favorite brand, I headed my own way to the gardening section which has grown over the passing year. Anyway, to make a long story short, I was hovering over it and my mom, as loving as she is, picked up everything I had started looking at and bought it for me. I now have pruning sheers! I've been dying for them since last year when I had to cut basil stems with 5 year old dulled pointless scissors. A beautiful wind chime to bring in the new year, and LETTUCE! Super epic.