One out of Four Finds a New Home

The kids did not pot the cuttings at camp, so Friday at pick-up time I collected the pots, soil & the 4 cuttings in peat pots, still in the shoe box M. & I had used to bring them to camp, and went to the park next door. Special thanks to Chris who watered the cuttings during their time in the office!

M. & Jen, a girl waiting for her mom to pick her up, helped with the potting.

It wasn't as messy as I'd feared. The peat pots were crumbly, but instead of trying to pull them out of the styrofoam cups, I peeled the cups off of them. The bottom of the cups remained intact, some with water in them. Once the water had been emptied into the plant, the cup bottom was good for scooping soil out of its bag. Each cutting-in-a-peat-pot went into a small black planter, and we filled in around the edges of the peat pot with soil. Then each plant got a drink of water from a Poland Spring bottle full of tap water that had been in my backpack for a few days. Jen took the plant of her choice home, and M. & I brought home the other 3.

We still have 5 cuttings in cups of water, each with plenty of roots. Plus 3 small coleus plants in pots, 2 in peat pots, the big one on the ledge outside the bathroom window, and the original 3.

Maybe a stoop sale?