We’ve had a wonderful bloom this year from our volunteer morning glory plant. Unfortunately the plant is nearing the end of its life cycle, though it is still displaying a handful of blooms everyday. The little seeds have an extremely hard shell, so the best way to ensure the seeds germinate is to soak them in water till they begin to germinate. Today was the day that little miracle of life occurred.

My job in all this was to construct the seed bed near the back fence. Our soil is rock hard clay which some times grows things and sometimes doesn’t. It was a matter of removing half of the clay, pulverizing the other half and mixing it with potting soil and and sandy soil. Before placing it back in the hole I made a bottomless “container” out of bricks.

In the ground go the seeds.

A thin shade cloth cover will give them a good start when they are up and growing.

The old morning glory has definitely seen better days. The new bed is about 10 feet to the right of this one.

Just to prove that was not a posed photo of her planting the seeds, here is the video i took immediately after taking the photo.