I am so sick of winter already. I've got major winter blues and I'm ready to just hide in bed until Spring. For my birthday I received a $50 gift card to Burpee, which sells seeds, plants, and gardening supplies. I've been paging through their magazine longingly dreaming of warm sunny days tending to my very first garden. My buddy Kristiane over at The Green Pilver was showing off her tomato sprouts recently, and I was getting pretty jealous. I didn't think I had anywhere sunny to set plants that my cat couldn't get to. Then I remembered I have magic double windows with a good 6" ledge between them. I can just put the plants between the windows and leave the inner one cracked to let warm air in.


Before I go ahead and invest in tons of seed kits for each of my windows I'm going to test run my theory with this $1 basil set. I'm hoping to grow lots of basil and tomatoes so I can make some badass bruschetta. If I see sprouts in the next week or two, then it's a green light to start piling up all my windows with plants.


The $1 basil kit included a tiny ceramic pot, a packet of seeds, and a dried up soil disc. I didn't think the disc would produce enough soil to fill the little pot, but 3 tablespoons of warm water made it swell like a marshmallow in a microwave. The instructions said to only plant 10 seeds, so I planted 10 and have a bunch of extra seeds that I have no where to go with.

If this works I may face a big decision of whether to grow my tomatoes by seeds or spend over twice that for plants.