LIFE OF A KIDNEY BEAN

A week and a half ago, on January 13, Carson planted a kidney bean seed in a little plastic cup at preschool. Last Tuesday, he came home and told us that a classmates seed and his teacher's seed had started to sprout, so upon arriving home we immediately had to check on his seed (which he had forgotten about up until Tuesday). The little seed in its cup had been sitting on the window sill above the sink since we brought it home. Jason and I had watered it a few times, but not being inclined to gardening I was sceptical that the seed would sprout. I knew the seed hadn't sprouted yet, and as we peered into our little cup, Jordan made the announcement that our seed wasn't growing. Knowing that some of the other seeds had sprouted I worried that we may have watered ours too much or not enough, that the window sill may have been too cold, or maybe it just wasn't a good seed. Turns out my worries were unfounded, as we discovered on Friday, when Jason looked in the cup and spotted a sprout. Jordan and Carson were really excited to see the sprout and when we looked at the bottom of the cup we could even see the roots. The sprout has made great progress in the last 3 days and we have recorded its growth in photos.

Friday - sprout discovery:

Saturday - a little bigger:

Sunday afternoon - even bigger:

Carson and his kidney bean: