This is a great experiment for kids to do. This is the set-up day, and I will put the links to updates here.
Take a glass and fill it will cotton wool.
Push some runner beans down between the glass and the cotton wool – four does it well one at each quarter.
Water well and put in a warm light place – a sunny windowsill is ideal.
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April 12, 2011 at 1:40 pm
[…] great bean trick with kids is to grow beans in cotton wool. Poke two or three beans down between the cotton wool and the glass. Water well, and the kids can […]
April 16, 2011 at 1:36 pm
[…] quick update on how the runner beans in cotton wool are doing. It is day four, and we now have roots growing from the bean […]
April 21, 2011 at 8:23 pm
[…] This is the update from day 6 of runner beans in cotton wool […]
May 15, 2011 at 1:28 pm
[…] can get your kids involved in the gardening – get them growing runner beans in cotton wool, or enter a pumpkin growing competition, or give them responsibility for one crop. So John’s […]