hello everyone this is Mrs. Rorabough from Cal fresh healthy living UC SLO and
Santa Barbara County and today we're going to do an activity of growing a
bean in a bag so for me I personally don't have a garden at home and if you
don't this is a great activity that you can grow something without having a
garden I've been doing some other experiments as well I'll show you one
real quick this is one that I started last week this is just lettuce that I
cut I had used this lettuce for dinner cut it right here and all I had to do is
place this in some water and put it in the window and it's already started
growing quite a bit in less than a week you actually notice some growth in just
a day so that one's pretty cool and today we're going to be doing the beam
in the bag this one's really easy and you don't need too much for it you need
a beam and you can use any dried beans so you can use a seed packet bean or you
can use a bean like the ones that you cook with as long as it's a dry bean not
a canned bean so let's see how we do it
what you will need is a paper towel some water
a beam you can use a dried bean or one from a seed pocket tape and a ziplock
baggie so first what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the napkin I'm going
to just fold it it doesn't need to be perfect and dip it in the water squeeze
out the excess water so it's nice and damp but not dripping what then I will
put my bean in there and I'm going to put it in between some of these folds
just so it stays nice and what put it in there get in your ziploc bag I like to
leave a little bit of an opening so there can be air in there there's a bean
right there and then we're going to take some tape and I will stick it on the
window see it on the window here is my bean on the window
great job planting your bean in the bag now what you will do is check back every
day look at your being in the window make sure that there's some water on the
paper towel you don't want it soaking wet but you want to make sure there is
some water in there if there isn't any water just add a little bit you can pull
the paper towel out and get it wet again and put it back in the window once your
beam starts growing you'll start seeing some roots maybe some leaves once you
start getting it a little bit bigger you'll want to plant it in some dirt you
can get a cup and put it in the cup with some soil and put it right back in the
window or you can put it outside in some soil
and watch it grow check back for another video to see how well mine has grown
I'll be posting a video once I see some growth right now it'll take a few weeks
till I actually have a plant but I should be seeing some growth in the next
few days so I'll take gradual pictures throughout so check back for that video
thank you see you soon