FROM NOTHING

from Art Department Weekly | Issue 91 Vol. 12

FAVORITE FIGS

When doing the same thing every day brings a change we can all see (and maybe eat)

Both Boom and Betty had plant units around the beginning of quarantine, so we had extra motivation to get some seeds wet and see what happens. Now we have spinach, sweet peas, and tomato seedlings.

Starting with wet paper towels... Chia, Cress, grass, and tangerine seeds were soaked to show off what seed embryos look like. The tangerine seeds went into a clay pot and nothing happened. Spinach and sweet peas went straight into the ground.

TRANSPLANT A clump of what I think was mostly Cress outgrew its little pot, so I planted it outside. And it promptly died.

SUN AND SHADE Most of the sunflowers started from seeds in egg cartons, but I planted one row of seeds outside. While I tried to get rid of all the wild onions and other random plants in the garden area, I moved the violets to a shadier space.

GRASS AND LAVENDER

I planted grass outside at the same time I started seeds on paper towels. The inside batch was protected from the cold and quickly grew to be a lush clump, now outside with the Chia seedlings that grew in the same egg carton. Meanwhile, two packets of lavender seeds have yielded only a few seedlings.