* For getting your pictures of your sprouting bean seed up on this page, please email it to: poeia@onomatopoeia.com.au*
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- Aristos 1
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- Aristos 2
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- Aristos 3
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- Our first sprout. Emily's magical bean.
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- Jackson
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- Astrid's sprout (09/09/08)
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- Lirie's amazingly tall bean!
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- Emily the Magician with Beans! (10.09.08)
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- Emily the Magician with Beans! (10.09.08)
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- aphra's sprout 12/09/08
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- Digby's sprout
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- Aphra's sprout (14/09/08)
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- Astrid's sprout (14/09/08)
Here are the instructions for getting your seed to sprout:
Inside the plastic bag, with these, you should have:
1. a bean seed
2. a peat pellet: the brown disk which will expand into a place to sprout your seed.
3. instructions with ruler on one side
Get started as soon as you can!! Its easy:
- Take everything out of the plastic bag.
– Stand the plastic bag up, so that it becomes like a little pot.
– Place your peat pellet in the plastic bag. The top of the pellet is the side with the circle on it.
– Pour in some water and watch it start to expand (like magic!). This takes a little while, so don’t worry if it doesn’t seem to be working straight away.
– When it has finished expanding, it will be about 4cm high. You can use the ruler on the other side of this paper to measure it.
– Once it has expanded, pour any excess water out of the bag.
– Push your seed about 2cm into the peat pellet and cover it with peat.
– Close up the bag again, so that the seed and peat pellet stay moist.
– Put it somewhere warm. It doesn’t need sunlight yet, just warmth.
– Don’t add any more water unless required. It needs to stay moist, but not soggy.
After 1 week (or after the sprout emerges): open up the bag and take a photo of your bean plant through the hole to upload to this blog (instructions coming)
After 2 weeks:
On Monday 15th of September
(or earlier if you teacher asks you to) bring your baby bean plant back to school Then we will make a new place in the school garden with all your baby plants!!