Four years ago, I was visiting Netherlands and one of the souvenirs I brought back home were three mini pots, two of them with strawberry seeds and the third with sunflower seeds. The thing is that the instructions were in dutch and I wasn't really sure how to plant and take care of the seeds. They came with some kind of condensed soil that I was supposed to prepare and then plant the seeds, so after a couple of (failed) attempts to read the instructions - no, google translate didn't work as expected- I put them aside and almost forgot about them for a few years. I found them again last month, while I was decluttering a closet and I thought that I should give them a chance, even without instructions. I poured a small amount of tiepid water until the soil actually looked like soil and not like a bar of chocolate! When it got nice and smooth, I planted the seeds and waited -with not much hope, I must admit, because the seeds had expired two years ago!
But I guess nature doesn't know about expiry dates! Here it is, my sunflower seedling! The strawberries haven't showed any signs of life yet, but I'm being optimistic!
