The lovely spring season is here and I have been thinking of doing some new gardening project this year.

The truth is, our “garden” is almost dead and in the past year, I murdered most of my potted plants except a couple of really tough ones:-(

Actually I can’t even recall when was the last time I got my hands into the dirt. It’s probably back to the early of 2009 when I found out that I fell pregnant. Then I just tried to stay away from soil, plants and fertiliser, etc.

But now, everything just comes back to me. Spring is always worthwhile celebrating, and it would be a crime to just miss it.

However, due to lacking of time, experience and skills, as well as the very unsuccessful history on growing stuff, I wanted to try something different this year, something easy to care, fast happening, but still good looking.

So here it is. After two weeks of “hard work”, let me introduce you my brand-new, completely successful and beautiful looking green project – 3 pots of healthy growing wheat grass.

Don’t you thing they are pretty? They are probably the easiest and the most successful indoor plant that I have ever grown. It’s so green and dense that just looks a bit of unreal:-) I just love its vivid colour and neat appearance so much.

To me, the hardest part is to get the whole wheat grain kernels (also known as wheat berries). I looked in many places, like supermarket, pet shop and Fyshwick’s nuts shop and health food shop but no luck. Eventually I got it from Queanbeyan’s Megahealth Food (that just added another reason for me to love Queanbeyan). I can remember I was very excited when I got to hold that 500g package in my hands.

Day 2: Planting after soaking for 8-12 hours

You can easily find the instructions on “how to grow wheat grass at home” on the Internet. It’s nothing complicated or secretive. I just soaked the grain for 12 hours, planted them one layer on the top of soil in terra cotta pots, kept them moist and covered until the sprouts came out. I watered them about twice daily by using a spray bottle, then i just waited.

Day 6: Sprouting and lovely green shoots

Patience is a virtue. Actually they just grew with light speed, like almost 1 inch everyday. It totally took about 14 days to reach the current height, about 6 inches. You are supposed to do a “haircut” when harvesting to yield wheat grass juice. It’s said that wheat grass juice is a very powerful drink to clean toxic, heal the wound, even cure cancer, but I am a bit hesitate because they also say that it tastes awful and probably would make you feel nausea, plus, I would rather look at it as a home decorative piece than a medical product.

Day 8: About 7cm high, almost there

Yes, a perfect centerpiece for your home, especially if you need to add a bit of green. It looks great on a window sill, a dining table or just a boring office desk.

You can also decorate it with some paper flowers, windmills or butterflies on the top of green grass to make it even more interesting. I made name tags for each of us and used a skewer to put them up in the pots. I guess if you replace the name tags with someone’s photo, it would be more interesting.

My plan? I am intending to grow a lot of these in different containers and develop it into a family tradition:-)

Hope you enjoy this spring as much as we do