Adventures In Asperger's: Autistic Botany {Lets grow it, but I don't want to eat it! Gross!}

For our science we have started to learn about Botany & everything plant/tree related. Jayden seems to be really into it. Since it went so well I thought what better way to learn about the process from start to finish than to start from a seed, grow a tomato, harvest it, & then make a bit of ketchup {since eating tomatoes is out of the question!} I did bend a bit after thinking it through since I have more of a black death man thumb than a green thumb so we bought a small plant instead of starting from a seed. To get the feel of starting from a seed we got some mammoth sunflower seeds. Since what ever Jayden does the other two want to do as well we got Zion a small strawberry plant & Dean got the mammoth sunflower seeds. I figure the tomato & strawberry plants we can bring in at night & the sunflowers, well those things will grow like crazy no matter what so we should be set! I thought, after all is said & done Ketchup or Pizza Sauce might be best since Jayden is dead set against eating a tomato although I do have my fingers crossed that since he is growing it himself I might be able to get him to try one bite. Hey, a dad can dream can't he!