tips and tricks
Easter Grass – Grow it Today
My fabulous next door neighbor who I’m currently courting to write a craft column on Seattle Mom Blogs is like the all-natural McGyver of crafting. She can take sticks, dirt specks and pinegum and create an elegant chandelier. She can make anything in the world out of sheep’s wool and she notices lovely things everywhere she goes and then tames them to decorate her beautiful home.
For Easter she helped me plant my own wheat grass to use as an Easter basket for my little bunnies this year. The project was super easy and looking gorgeous and I think you should all try it today so it will grow in time for Easter.
First you soak a couple of handfuls of wheat in water for 24 hours. Soft white wheat berries are best and you need to get some that haven’t been stored with oxygen absorber packets. My neighbor purchased ours at Whole Foods for very little money.
Next you fill a pie plate or other dish with dirt about an inch deep. Then you sprinkle the soaked wheat berries over the top of the dirt. You only need about half of the amount of wheat that we used. We went a little overboard.
Water well and cover with plastic wrap until tiny sprouts appear.
After the sprouts start popping up (24-48 hours), remove the plastic wrap.
When the grass is a couple of inches tall, move the container to a sunny location so it will turn green in color. In the picture below, the grass is almost tall enought to move to the window. Soon it should be thick, lush and green.
On Easter Eve, dress like a bunny and place eggs and treats amidst the blades of grass.
How sweet is that?
I’ll post more pictures as the grass grows.
Update: Check out the progress.
I’ll be near whole foods today. Maybe I should pick some up….
We are sprouting our own alfalfa seeds and mung beans as we speak and I want to grow wheatgrass too. Why didn’t I think of it for Easter? It’s probably too late but we’ll have to start some tomorrow. Thanks!
I do the craft on mamaspod and I’m going to have to use this one. I’ll definitely sing your praises because I’d NEVER come up with this but I can’t wait to try it with the kids. Thank you for the great idea. really!!
[...] had a great idea on one of her posts to plant wheat grass for Easter. I thought it would be too late when we planted ours on the 14th [...]