A little spring has sprung at our house

So, I have about 4 blog posts started, but not finished. I just sat down to write my birthday blog and decided to blog my grass instead. Looks like you'll be kept in suspense another day about my birthday.

When we went to Primary Children's for Maddie's arm a few weeks back, they had little pots of seeds all over the window's edge. I was intrigued and asked what they were doing. The sweet receptionist was giddy when I asked. She told me that they were sprouting wheat grass. She told me to try it at home, but to use hard red winter wheat. Who is she to tell me what kind of wheat to use?

Maddie and I went home and tried it out with some regular old wheat...and soil from out in my flower beds. Day 2 I started to notice little potato bug carcases floating to the top of my cups. Day 3 the smell was disgusting. Day 4, mold. Day 8 I thew them away and sent out the facebook message begging for red winter wheat. The Smith's came to my rescue, and also shared a story of dropping some down the drain on accident and having beautiful green grass sprouting up a few weeks later. She gave me hope.

We started 3 pans of them. We dropped our wheat in the first 2, then I remembered the sweet lady also told me to soak them for a few hours first, so I soaked my last kernels (is that the right word?) before I put them in the nice fresh soil that I bought at Wal-Mart.

Pans 1 and 2 didn't do too well, pan #3 has been so much fun to watch! I love how bright green it is with all this snow around!

If you want to try to grow some grass, learn from my mistakes.

1. Use hard red winter wheat. 2. Buy fresh, bug-free soil 3). soak your wheat for a few hours first. 4). lay out in a single layer on the dirt. 5) keep wet until you get sprouts, then just water as needed to keep soil moist.