Hard to believe we're already to Thursday of this week... I started my first of four crochet classes on Tuesday, and since then my free time has been spent playing with yarn, so not a lot of gardening going on this week. I love crocheting! My first project will be a "camo" blanket for Boy Wonder. I let him pick the stitching method, so I'm really excited about that...
Anyway, I've been working on a small "garden" project with Boy Wonder (BW), and wanted to share it with you...
As BW gets older, it's becoming harder to find inexpensive little items to put in his Easter basket and plastic eggs. This year I decided to scale things back a bit too. I could have purchased his favorite thing, Pokemon cards, or given him Star Wars paraphernalia... Instead I decided to get him something useful, and something he could learn from, so I bought him a
bean sprouter from Amazon. Ok, ok, I admit I had this on my wish list for a long time, but Boy Wonder
loves bean sprouts. Whenever we go out for Thai or Pho he gets his own side of sprouts to munch on, so I thought he'd appreciate this gift.
The kit came with a packet of alfalfa sprouts, and I bought a pound of
Mung beans too since that's what he likes. This was really easy to get up and running. I had to tinker with the water reservoirs a little but BW did the rest.
We started the sprouts on Saturday, and I thought I'd share the progression with you. Here's BW watching the water drain. Oooh exciting... The instructions say to add water to the top level twice a day (then that water drips through each level, and into the bottom then dumped).
Mung Beans
Sunday; Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5 I should have used, but didn't have time to cook yesterday because of BW's swim class.
Day 6 (today)
Alfalfa Sprouts...
Sunday; Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6 (today)
BW enjoyed this activity. I was excited to see him run downstairs each morning to water his sprouts.
The Mung bean sprouts will be going into a
Peanut Butter Noodles with chicken dish, and I may throw some sprouts into BW's lunch tomorrow. The alfalfa sprouts will go onto sandwiches for dinner tomorrow night. From what I've read, sprouts don't store well, so I'm sure I'll be throwing a bunch away. Next time I'll grow one batch at a time, and only 1/2 a tablespoon (vs 1 tablespoon like the instructions say).
