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Oh how I love spring, birds singing, bees buzzing and flowers blooming.

Make a Flower Garden in a Jar

 

Today I will share with you how I grew my flower garden in a jar.

Here are the instructions:

First I got a pickle jar, but any jar will work. Then I went and got some dirt and filled it about 1/3 full. The next step was to add a small amount of water to the dirt. It was all prepped and ready for the seeds. For my seeds I used a flower bomb I had made, but I do not think that was such a good Idea, I think seeds would have suited the job better. I either over watered it or could not keep the seed bomb wet enough so it could release its seeds. But if you want to try making the seed bomb you can find to the steps for making it, here.   

                                                             This is the seed bomb in the jar.

                                              This is me and my brother mixing the seeds in
                                                         to make the seed bombs.

                                                              This is the seed bombs drying.

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This is a picture I made on my computer.

My Butterfly Journal...(stage two)

            When I last left off the caterpillars were very small and they ate so much they got big over the time of about a week. Now let me share with you what happed next.

            Once they where nice and fat they finally hung there chrysalides* on a special paper under the lid of the container. The whole process from start to finish took about two weeks. It took two days for all five of them to go into their chrysalides*. Two of the caterpillars wrapped themselves up in their cocoon the first day and the other three cocooned over night and throughout the next day.

After all the caterpillars were snug in there new homes, I taped them (and pined to make sure they wouldn’t fall down) to the side of the cage. Now the hardest part comes waiting……..

     

  I hope you will follow along as I raise my five beautiful butterflies. I will be adding more posts soon.  

*(Chrysalides is the same as cocoons)*

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It's Really raining!