Growing Wheat Grass {For Decoration}
Growing wheat grass for decoration is a simple spring craft. Kids also love it!
The dull gray and white of winter and early spring makes me long for GREEN! While it was still bleak outside, I decided to plant some wheat grass to add a little color to our home. It’s so simple and children love to help with this!
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Growing Wheat Grass for Decoration
First, I soaked some wheat grains in water.
I just used our hard red wheat that we use for making bread. You can also purchase wheat berries for sprouting here.
It’s supposed to soak for 12 hours or so, but I got sick and couldn’t get to it that soon, so mine soaked for more like 36 hours!
It was still fine, but if you let it soak for too long it will get moldy. So, around 12 hours is probably best.
Then I collected some small rocks from the driveway for drainage, and made a layer of rocks in each container.
I lined a little metal pail with a cottage cheese container (cut off the top portion) so the metal wouldn’t rust. (These galvanized oval planters would also work well for this project.)
Add some potting soil on top of the layer of rock. Terracotta pots like these would make good planters.
Add a layer of wheat. If you don’t add enough, the wheat grass will be thin and sparse, so I added a lot, and I was very happy with the result.
Then very lightly cover with a thin layer of potting soil. Mist or water the top of the soil very well, and then wait for the wheat to sprout!
We only had a few sunny days, but I put the plants in the window each morning so they would get as much sun as possible. I also watered them every day.
I covered these with some plastic wrap to produce a greenhouse effect, with the hope that they would sprout faster.
Sprouting Wheat Grass
And it worked! You can just see the little sprouts beginning to come up out of the soil.
The ones I covered in plastic wrap did come up slightly faster than the uncovered ones, but it isn’t necessary to cover them, as it only sped up the process by a little bit. This picture was taken about two days after planting:
And here they are two days later:
And (below), this is just one day after the previous photo!
And two days later (below):
And then four days later (below):
As you can see, they grow very fast (mine took about 8-10 days), and it was so fun to get up each morning and see how much bigger they had grown.
Trimming Your Wheat Grass
If you want to, you can give them a trim to make the tops even.
After trimming this one, I decided that I like them better untrimmed. But the next morning it had grown again, and didn’t even look like it had been cut!
I put this one in a basket:
These make such simple and inexpensive table settings or decorations for any room in the house. They also work for a natural Easter basket grass!
We’re still enjoying ours!
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I just came across your blog from the Homestead Blog Hop to check out the ways to grow wheatgrass as a decoration. I’ve have shared your fantastic article. It’s a wonderful and helpful idea. I’d like to try this at the house!
You have such great tips here! I grew some wheat grass several years ago for my Easter centerpieces but I started several weeks before hand so it had time to grow. You’ve given me hope that I can do it just this week! Happy Easter! Blessings, Loni
Happy Easter to you, Loni!
Happy Spring! This post has been selected as one of my Features from the Welcome Spring party! So glad you shared with us! Watch my FB page for the share. Pinned it too. Love the idea of using natural elements for Spring Home Decor and I will be doing this!
Thank you so much for the feature, Shirley! 🙂
Such a quick and simple way to add some greenery to the house. Pinned.
Thanks!
The perfect way to bring a breath of spring to winter! Thanks for sharing on Homestead Blog Hop!
Thanks, Liz!