And if you haven’t started your plantings yet, you should get to work 
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My four year old is delighted in growing things. I figured I’d show her how to grow more stuff than she can shake a stick at. I rinsed out some milk jugs and then found this indepth instructable online.
Basically, you’re using the cotton twine through the lid into some water in order to keep the water in the pot damp. It (the water) will be wicking through the string, from the bottom to the top of the dish. You’ll be growing the plants in the top part of the milk jug (the pictures in the post I linked to explain it much better).
On my first “experiment” I just cut off the front of the jug, leaving the handle, stabbed some holes in the bottom of the jug and filled it with dirt. I sank a bunch of water into it, and I’ll go back and have her plunk some seeds into it. But these pictures have really given me some “food for thought” – we drink between 3 and 5 jugs of milk a week here (depending on the availability of chocolate cake). Maybe I could divert some of those from the recycling buckets to the garden.
