Tonight I bought organic avocados and made quacamole for our bedtime snack. You can take the pit from the avocado and plant it! Here is how:
- Rinse the pit off really well.
-Cut the bottom of the pit of leaving the pointy side as the top.
-Poke 4 evenly spaced toothpicks out of the sides near the bottom.
-Place in a bowl of water. Wait for roots to grow and a sprout to come out the top. Eventually, you will pot it in soil and a tree will grow!
It can take up to 5 years to get avocados, but I am willing to wait! You can put the tree outside if you live in a warm climate, but it needs to be indoors if it gets below 45 degrees F.
There is more infor on the internet for a more complete set of directions. This is the general idea.
My kids are excited to see what happens!
We have 2 growing in our greenhouse! We have a book called dont toss it, grow it, and we attempted a huge variety of planting veggies pits etc. This week it is green onions and celery stalk stubs! We had success with potato, sweet potato, pineapple stalks etc
ReplyDeleteOh neat book! Will have to look for that! I have green onions and celery growing as well! Green onions will grow in just water even, but we are thinking they need moved to soil for more nutrients. It's so fun! Will have to try the pineapple! Was it edible?
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