Plant a seed and track its growth.

“I planted all my seeds in Mid March, and by early April all the indoor seeds had sprouted! I was so excited for every little leaf–it was like watching a miracle! [...] While I would have loved for them to have thrived, I’m not that sad about it. Watching them sprout up was SO much fun and I feel like I learned a ton from this failed experiment (lesson: plants need more light than a tiny stream through some window blinds…duh).”

“Nearly every single plant I’d watched grow over the weeks ended up dead. My cilantro never sprouted. All of my tomatoes died. I was left with five kale plants, a few plants each of sweet and Thai basil, one tiny, woody rosemary, and some stunted garlic bulbs. Only the rows of beets and carrots I’d planted outside seemed to flourish. The ones who had suffered frosts and snow were the ones that grew; those plants I’d coddled and prodded were too weak to survive on this planet.”

“I woke up early to carry my seedlings outside so they could take in the morning sun before I went to work, and I’d carry them back inside as I left for the day. When I came home I’d bring them out again, for an hour at first, then slowly adding time until the sprouts got to watch their first sunset.”