Garden Glory Heirloom Box

Here's a delightful little project to do that will help you to create your very own heirloom seeds within a few growing seasons. It is simple enough to do in an hour & an easy enough project for even little children to master.

I give you the Garden Glory Heirloom Box.

You will need the following supplies to create your very own Gardening Glory Heirloom Box:

• a standard sized shoe box
• wrapping or contact paper of a design that brings you great joy
• 25 standard letter envelopes

Here are the directions:

1. Wrap your shoe box & its lid in your chosen wrapping or contact paper.
2. Place your standard letter envelopes in the shoe box.

Voila! You have a Gardening Glory Heirloom Box ready & waiting to accept the seeds that you harvest from the veggies, fruits, flowers, & herbs that you enjoy in your food preparation & in your garden!

Seed Collection Ideas

1. As you prepare your foods, save aside citrus & tomato seeds, allowing them to dry on coffee filters or segments of paper towel.
2. Once they are entirely dry, select an envelope from your Gardening Glory Heirloom Box & label it appropriately for the seeds that you wish to deposit in it.
3. Fold over your envelope flap, & you're on to the next set of seeds.
4. It may help to put these in alphabetical order & to note the month & year when you catalogued each seed collection.
5. Once your garden blooms, fruits, & goes to seed, collect the seeds & catalogue them as well in the same way that you have done with your "eating seeds".
6. Citrus & tomato seeds sprout particularly well. I have two grand lemon trees from "eating seeds". Once they fruit several seasons in a row, I will have my very own heirloom citrus seeds to keep, plant, & gift.

This Garden Glory Heirloom Box is a lovely way to celebrate the season of green & growing things & to honour the principle of preparation as an important foundation for abundance.

With Mother's Day & the gardening season right around the corner, this is a lovely & inexpensive, thoughtful gift for children to make for those near & dear who cannot seem to keep their green thumbs out of the rich, black earth. *wink*

May you have every success in developing your very own heirloom seed catalogue!

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