Gardening Cheats Update!

My chive kit from the dollar store is just about ready to be transplanted in my garden. I also saved the extra seeds from the kit and plan on planting them as well. Next summer I'm hoping to snag a few more indoor herb starter kits.

Gardening Cheats Progress!

This isn't an April Fool's Day prank my chive plant from the Dollar Tree is sprouting!

I'm not going to try growing potatoes this year, since my attempts last year were an epic fail, but hopefully I'll be able to get some spuds at my local farmers market when it opens this summer and have some fresh chives to adorn them.
I kinda wished I grabbed another herb kit now but I hesitated because I never used them before. When I went to my local store yesterday they only have the vegetable kits left, since I already have some seeds leftover from last year's garden I passed on those kits.

Gardening Cheats!

This year I am determined to have a kick butt garden! So much so that I got a few starter kits for herbs and flowers currently taking over window ledges and cramped living room end tables. I remember seeing the Buzzy brand grow kits at Target last year and was kinda meh about them but this year I'm giving them a shot, especially since it was only $1 for the chives kit.

The kits come with a little plastic pot, a soil pelt, and of course a packet of seeds.

The only thing to add is some water to the soil pellet and then tada magically enough soil for the plastic pot is created!

It is mildly amusing to see the hockey puck sized soil pellet soak up the water and grow in size. After I took the above picture it grew taller than the bowl and naturally flew over :)
I did plan on getting some plastic pots at the Dollar Tree along with some herb seeds but for what I would have paid to make a kit at home for one herb it was much more cost efficient to get the kit from Target. I have a few seeds left over that I am going to save for my garden. Now the question that remains is whether it will actually grow or not.