Newly replanted zinnias

My daughter has been wanting to plant seeds, from packets she bought with her daddy, for over a year.  I kept thinking, and telling her, that we didn’t have a garden plot.  This spring, my thinking changed.  We have flower pots!  Let’s get those seeds planted!

We planted zinnias several weeks ago, and they have been growing quite well in a too small pot.  Today, we transplanted them into two other pots.  First, she decided which were the smallest, and I showed her how to carefully remove just those plants.  Then we put the rest, with their roots intact, into a larger pot of soil.  The smaller plants we replanted into another smaller pot.

It was a perfect chance to talk about the limited food supply in the first pot, and how all of those plants needed enough to grow.  Relate it to feeding people a pizza.  You might need to limit how many are invited to the pizza party, or you’ll run out of slices.  Or you can order another pizza to have enough.  In our case, we ordered another ‘pizza’ and separated the guests into two ‘tables’.  She didn’t look at it as hurting the plants, as she had in the past when I’d mentioned needing to remove some of the smaller plants from the pot.  We found a solution to help all of those plants survive.

She’s happy, and we’ll have two pots of beautiful zinnias!