Sowing the Seed of Love II

This is part II of my earlier post on the same subject. Sadly, due to the super heat, dry weather and very strong wind, the bean plant has succumbed to the harsh growing conditions and is drying up. My last attempt to revive it seemed futile. It's slowly withering away......

It has actually grown to about 4-5cm tall and looked healthy. Suddenly, overnight, the top part of the stem began to turn brown. Thinking that the soil was too dry, I added more water but somehow the leaves started to dry up as well and now the whole plant is brown. My boy is also sad about it too. We were initally quite excited about its healthy growth. We looked at it and said hi to it every morning before setting off to school. Now, it's almost gone........

Sowing the Seed of Love

2 weeks back, my boy brought a bean back from school - it looked like a broad bean. What is unique and cute about this seed is that on one side of the bean was printed the name of the school while the picture of a puppy was printed on the other side. Unlike the green bean, the bean is to be grown on soil.

So the following Sat after the seed has been brought back, mummy went to buy some soil. Soon, mummy and son were at the corridor planting the seed. We split the job. I poured the soil in a recycled container and my boy buried the seed in the soil. We then happily watered the seed and declared the seed planted. There was definitely some bonding between mummy and son during the process.

It was during the night when we were revising his Science that it suddenly struck us that maybe the seed should not be buried - based on the theory that a seed needs air, water and warmth to germinate. Yes, air - we reckoned that the seed will not get air if it is buried in the soil! So poor mummy got back to the corridor, in the night, dug out the seed and placed it gingerly on the soil instead.

It took quite a long while for it to germinate - almost a week. And this is how it looked like after 2 weeks. Cute!