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Simple growing activity - 3 quick growing vegetables with home care instruction sheet

Resources

- Three plastic plant pots per beaver – at least 15 cm tall
- Seeds - pea shoots, radishes and salad leaves
- Bag of Compost
- Trowels – several to share.
- Watering can with rose head – ideally more than one.
- Sticky labels to name pots (both with beavers’ name and what seeds are sown!)
If the weather is nice, set up tables outside so any spilt soil can be dusted off easily.

Instructions

Talk about tools you will use and how to use them safely.

How to sow:
1. Fill containers with compost to within 2-3cm of the rim, and firm the surface lightly using the bottom of another pot or seed tray.

2. Sow the seeds
i) Scatter salad seeds thinly, allowing 1-2cm each way between seeds, and cover them with a thin layer of compost.
ii) Push pea seeds about 2cm deep into the compost, about 5cm apart each way, and smooth over the surface to cover them.
iii) Sow radish seeds 1cm deep and 2.5–5cm apart, with 15cm between rows (ie only a couple in a round pot).
3. Finely spray the surface with water.

Beavers take home their pots and instructions on how to water and harvest.

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