Celery update

Our celery is going strong - its been about a week and a half since we started growing it! As of yesterday (Friday the 17th of August) it was 4.5 inches tall!! (from the bottom of the dish up)

We noticed some roots growing out of the bottom and decided to plant it. The children were very excited to get their hands dirty! We have it planted in a large pot and are going to continue to watch it grow.

We asked the children of we should eat it when it got big and they thought we were silly to think of such an idea - so this has sprung into talking about farming. :). What a perfect topic considering harvesting season is creeping up on us! We will be researching a possible field trip soon ! ;)

Re-growing Celery

I had heard from a friend about this idea and then saw a pintrest idea about vegetables that you can "re-grow" using the pieces you would normally throw away. I thought this was a great idea for a science experiment.

We had celery and carrot sticks for snack yesterday, so we decided to try and re-grow the celery from the base that was left.

So I explained this to the children. I told them that someone told me we could grow a "new" celery from that little piece we had left. They kind of looked at me funny at first. But when I asked them all how big they thought it might get they got excited and started throwing their hands I the air exclaiming things like "this big!!!" c " no, this big!!" and "it's going to grow up to the ceiling!!!"

This is what our celery looks like as of day 1 when we put it in the glass with water. I will keep you all updated on how it turns out, and we are going to get the children to come up with some ideas of other fruits/veggies that we can try to re-grow. :)