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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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How awesome! I just hopped by from Homestead Blog Hop to check out how to grow wheatgrass for decoration and I shared your wonderful post. Such a useful and inspiring idea. I want to try this at home!
Thanks, Deborah!
I did this once years ago and now you make me want to do it again! I think I will. I love it in the basket.
🙂 gwingal
The one in the basket is my favorite too. 🙂
My mom always does this and she got me doing it last year. I’m glad I saw your post because I need to grow some before Easter, and it’s almost time to get it started sprouting! Thanks for linking up with us at the #HomeMattersParty this week.
Glad it was helpful! I need to start some too!
This is a super cute idea. I really never thought of growing it from seed at home. Feel free to pop. Cute site. Pinning to try.
Thanks, Theresa!
This is a great idea!! So pretty and fresh, Joy 🙂
Thank you, Jacque! 🙂
It also makes a wonderful supplement for your dog and cat. If you take your trimmings and chop them fine you can sprinkle them on the animals food to help give them a bit more fiber and chlorophyll in their diet. You can also, if you can stand the taste, juice it for a healthy shake in the mornings to get everything "moving".
For how long can we keep this grass without replacing?
Mine only seemed to look nice for a couple of weeks, and then the bottom part started getting a yellowish look. It's more of a temporary spring decoration.
That is a very nice spring idea! 🙂 It looks very fresh!
Thank you! 🙂
What a neat idea, Joy! It would indeed be nice to have green indoors right now. 🙂
Thanks, Sarah! I LOVE green! 🙂
I love this! But I'm not sure where to find the wheat! Bummer.
We buy our wheat in bulk from Azure (our food co-op). But I'm sure a health food store would also carry wheat. If you just tell them you want to make wheat grass, I'm sure they could point you in the right direction! I think sometimes this is sold in bulk bins, so you could just get the small amount needed for this project if you wouldn't need it for something else. 🙂
Oh that was so fun. I am so glad to find your blog. I don't have a lot of crafty time. I'm a bakery owner and have lots of grains… and 2 cats. I could kill 2 birds with one stone. Decorative grass that the cats can eat…
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I'm so glad you stopped by, Piper! How neat that you own a bakery–that sounds like a fun job! And that's a great idea about growing grass for the cats to eat! 🙂
Thanks. I will plant my 3 wheat planters tomorrow morning. I've been soaking and rinsing since Sunday. I didn't realize that you can soak them less time. I was waiting for sprouts…Que sera, sera. First time for everything!