A Gift from the Garden
A young friend of mine is starting his first garden this year. I grew some plants to help him get started but also wanted to share some seeds with him.
Instead of just handing him a jumble of envelopes with seeds, I wanted to help him start his garden planning on a positive note. I made a Seed Book for him to build on for the future.
I used a 3 ring notebook that had a clear pocket on the front and back. I gathered some old seed catalogs that had some good graphics and did a cut and paste collage for the front cover.
Inside, I used baseball/game card sleeves and No. 1 2 1/4" by 3 1/2" Kraft coin envelopes to organize the seeds I was sharing with him. In the future, he will be able to add to his collection and keep the different types of plants organized. I use a similar notebook for my own seed collection and it is a great space saver.
This would be a wonderful way to start for a child's garden or maybe even a school garden project.
I figure I'm on to something here since I recently discovered one of my tomato breeder friends uses the same set up for cataloging his tomato seed varieties.
