I’m growing Maple trees from seed, seed that our October Glory dropped this Spring. Three of them I sprouted myself, and there are four others in various older stages of development that I found around the tree.<\/p>\n
It’s fun to grow stuff, and particularly something that COULD get really big. It’s really neat, God created trees to grow from seeds. He made those trees that grow to produce the seeds that will make more trees “just like them”. How cool is that?!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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