Jed and the Beanstalks

Planted 5 kidney beans a couple of weeks ago to show Jeddy boy how plants grow. And my, did they grow!

After a week, the fastest growing bean measured 20 cm tall while the shortest was a mere 3 cm (after taking its own sweet time to sprout). Somehow that just reminded me of the way children grow too -- some faster, some slower, but they all get there eventually. :)

Was a great opportunity for Jeddy to learn how to water the beanstalks and watch them grow day by day. And kidney bean plants are waaaaay more fun than green bean/red bean plants.

There's only so much these beanstalks can grow on a thin bed of cotton and plain water. Well, I'm not about to fry these in a wok with chopped garlic, so the time has come to hand the plants over to Jeddy boy. *Yikes*

He treated the plants with kindness and stroked the leaves really gently... at first. But boys will be boys, and the rough play began to set in before you could even finish saying "kidney beans".

Stroke stroke























Tweak Tweak























Pluck Pluck























Ending up as roundabout shrubbery on Jeddy's town. *sigh*














































Do try growing kidney beans for your toddlers and be fascinated together with them.

Enjoy!

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