I am so excited to share this! How would you like to bring some fresh, green, early Spring life into your home for Easter this year? It is super easy and fun to grow REAL EASTER GRASS in your Easter baskets. We used to do this when I was a kid and I did it early this year to demonstrate it for a Relief Society activity. If I can do this, anyone can...it is fool proof. Kids will love helping with this and watering the basket each day. After the grass has come in, you can leave the baskets out for the Easter Bunny to fill with candy and eggs. I know that I HATE that plastic Easter grass that gets all over your home and sticks to everything. Try this out instead! (You'll want to start this about 10-11 days before Easter.)
What you’ll need:
-Plastic wrap
-Grass seed, rye seed, or wheat seed (I use spring wheat berries, available at the Boise Co-Op in bulk. Or you can use wheat berries from the cannery-they just take longer to sprout.)
-Vermiculite
-Basket to grow it in
-Water spray bottle
-A sunny window
1. Line your basket with plastic wrap, plus leave some sticking out over the top edge, about one inch. Try and do one piece to prevent leaking.
2. Fill will vermiculite almost to the top of the basket. Vermiculite is lighter than soil, stays moist easily and can be found in gardening stores.
3. Cover the top with seed. Sprinkle ¼ inch vermiculite over the top of the seed. Water it with the spray bottle until it is good and wet.
4. Place basket in sunny window. Mist with water 3-4 times a day so that soil stays damp. In about 10 days, you will have a beautiful basket of real Easter grass!
-Plastic wrap
-Grass seed, rye seed, or wheat seed (I use spring wheat berries, available at the Boise Co-Op in bulk. Or you can use wheat berries from the cannery-they just take longer to sprout.)
-Vermiculite
-Basket to grow it in
-Water spray bottle
-A sunny window
1. Line your basket with plastic wrap, plus leave some sticking out over the top edge, about one inch. Try and do one piece to prevent leaking.
2. Fill will vermiculite almost to the top of the basket. Vermiculite is lighter than soil, stays moist easily and can be found in gardening stores.
3. Cover the top with seed. Sprinkle ¼ inch vermiculite over the top of the seed. Water it with the spray bottle until it is good and wet.
4. Place basket in sunny window. Mist with water 3-4 times a day so that soil stays damp. In about 10 days, you will have a beautiful basket of real Easter grass!
BEFORE
It would be so fun to give friends, neighbors, and/or Visiting Teachees mini-Easter baskets full of real grass and treats this year.
It would be so fun to give friends, neighbors, and/or Visiting Teachees mini-Easter baskets full of real grass and treats this year.
AFTER
Happy Growing!
7 comments:
Those are cute. I don't think I could do it. I had no clue what vermilli-whatever was! Or a wheatberry.
Ash, it is so easy. Just ask for vermiculite at the garden dept. And buy wheat seed at the gardening dept, too! Or use the wheat that comes in cans from the cannery. I have like 14 lbs. of that stuff in my pantry (which I have no idea what to do with in an emergency.)
Oh! I always forget how cute those are! I'm doing it this year. Yours are darling!
That is just the cutest thing ever! I vow never to buy that fake stuff for our kids. It just gets all over the house and eaten which is so gross!!
You are so creative! Thank you so much for the card you sent me! Thanks for thinking of me! I sent you an e-mail
Love ya!
I need to start calling you Martha Stewart! You are amazing Nikole. If I only had the talent and creativity... Hope you are all doing well.
oh my this is so great! thanks for sharing.
i will bring the traditions links back sometime.. thanks for your email.
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