Grow a Garden
Let your children see how things grow. My children help me with watering and weeding our gardens but I like to do something inside the house that they can watch more closely.
Get a jam jar or glass jar and wet a paper towel until it is damp but not soaking wet and place in glass jar. Add about a dozen lentils or beans and cover jar. Place it in indirect sunlight and watch them grow, you will see shoots in 5-7 days!
For vegetables like potatoes, avocado pits or onions, get a jar and fill it 2/3 of the way up with water. Place three toothpicks into the veggie so that the bottom third of it will be underwater. Place in indirect sunlight.
You will see growth in 3-5 days.
This one is cool because you get to see the shoots out of the top of the veggie but also the root system.
You can also grow a small garden with seeds. You a plastic egg carton and fill each section with potting mix 3/4 full. Moisten and press down on soil. Place seeds either in soil or on top (depending on the seed). Close top and place in indirect light.
Happy growing!
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June 23rd, 2007 at 9:17 pm
My son has a “fairy garden” which is basically a shallow pot that’s he’s painted and decorated. It’s perfect to start seedlings whenever we’re planting a new crop. Then when they sprout and get big enough we transfer the plants to larger pots.
June 18th, 2008 at 11:32 am
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