I do not by any means have a green thumb. Every year I am inspired to have a garden -- more in rebellion of the cold weather as opposed to a joy in growing things -- only to have it die because of some reason or another (you mean you have to water it every day?). Even houseplants quake when they see me coming, which is why I currently have only a succulent and a polka dot plant that are still surviving by mere tenacity --not including the plastic ones.
Which is why I'm shocked to report that the apple seed that I planted and sprouted back in April has continued to grow. I'm amazed, so say the least, that I planted a tiny seed and here it's done it's seed thing and grown into a plant. Someday, I might be lucky enough to get apples from it. Yep, amazing. Currently my apple tree is measuring just over a foot in height. After spending it's first two months of life in a tiny pot, I gave it some more root room today by transplanting it in to a larger pot. After having such roaring success with my first apple seed, when I found several more sprouting apple seeds in another Gala apple I was coring to eat, I planted four of those too. I may just get a whole orchard out of this.
Speaking of Apples, I planted another Apple into a cup of water last night. Unfortunately this one wasn't an apple seed but instead my Apple iPod Nano that my Sir Knight bought me for Christmas. Apparently I fell asleep listening to it -- which I often do when I'm having trouble falling asleep -- and in my mostly asleep state, took it off and put it on my bedside table. Usually I plunk it into a bowl that I have sitting there just for that purpose, but I must have missed because we discovered it at the bottom of my glass of water this morning. Yeh, it doesn't grow well that way. I don't have a lot of hope as it dribbled out more water than that I thought that tiny thing could hold as I carried it to the kitchen. I planted that particular Apple into a bowl of rice hoping that a few days might dry it out. Keep your fingers crossed.
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