I’m eating Dora the Explorer vanilla yogurt. That’s better than the banana kind I’ll be eating before too long. I got them for X, hoping that the colorful cartoon character would convince him to eat some. No such luck. Now I’m stuck eating it. (I prefer my plain yogurt, nice and tangy and not laden with sugar.)
Eating his yogurt now is about more than just not letting the food go to waste. I need the yogurt containers! They are by far the easiest container to convert into pots for my seedlings! I’ve got loads of seedlings and I’m trying to transplant them over to pots now, to give their roots more space.
I’ve got yogurt cups, a cut up two liter soda bottle, a frosting container, a margarine container, cut up water bottles…the list goes on. Anything I’ve been able to scrounge that is the right size and I can poke holes in will do. I’m so desperate I’ve eaven asked Toph to keep watch for things at work. Steal the co-workers’ trash so I can recycle it into pots for my baby plants!!!
How did this happen? How did I forget to plan ahead and save yogurt cups ahead of time?
So, do you have any water bottles, yogurt cups, or ANYTHING I can use?!?!
June 25th, 2008 at 1:32 pm - Edit
Do you guys get the newspaper? You can make your own seedling pots that you can direct sow into the ground (one example: http://lifehacker.com/software/diy/diy-newspaper-seedling-pots-252764.php).
You can also use TP and PT rolls!
My garden is going haywire finally.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:59 pm - Edit
Ah ha! Jess is brilliant! The kids helped me make 24 newspaper seedling pots this afternoon and tomorrow we’ll be doing transplants. I think I’ll have to do another tray or two of pots after that though! Newspaper!!! Great idea!!! Woot!!!
June 26th, 2008 at 5:47 pm - Edit
LOL! I did the same thing with buying those Dora yogurts for my little munchkin thinking it might get him to eat them! he took a couple of bites and that was it. Now Dad and I have to finish them off before the expiration date creeps up on us!
June 30th, 2008 at 11:57 am - Edit
That’s too funny! I always end up eating the food I buy for the kids when they don’t like it. It makes sense for a family to eat more of the same things together, but it doesn’t always work.