CD Case Growing Garden

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After finishing the Hovercraft and Friction experiment, you will be left with an empty CD case.

Here is an upcycling idea.

The empty CD box can be used in this gardening project.

Grow a little indoor greenhouse full of grass in you kitchen.

Like most plants, grass needs water, soil, air and sunlight to grow.

In order to absorb water and nutrients in the soil, grass roots grow down into the earth. 

If you carefully examine the soil everyday, you will see that the radicle (primary root) is the first thing to emerge from the embryo during germination.

The narrow leaves come next

Easy way to let a child grown their own grass garden!
grow a CD grass garden STEM activity

Grow A CD Garden

Prep Time: 40 minutes
Active Time: 20 minutes
Additional Time: 21 days
Total Time: 21 days 1 hour

Let's see how we grew a grass garden in a CD case.

Materials

  • grass seed (you may have to experiment with a few brands. We had great results using this one, but only moderate success with this.)
  • potting soil or garden soil
  • CD case
  • water

Tools

  • packing tape
  • scissors
  • cup for watering
  • adult supervision

Instructions

    1. Open up the CD case and remove the inner section that holds a CD. empty cd case
    2. Put a thin layer of potting soil at the bottom of the case (the edge that is not the hinge). Put a thin layer of potting soil at the bottom of the case
    3. Sprinkle plenty of grass seeds over the soil. Sprinkle plenty of grass seeds over the soil.
    4. Add another thin layer of soil on top of the seeds.
    5. Close the CD case. Use packaging tape to securely tape over the bottom so that curious fingers cannot disturb the soil.
    6. Water the soil from the slit on the top edge of the case everyday.
    7. Keep the soil moist at all time and do not let it dry out. But also don’t drown it with too much water. put the cd garden on a countertop
    8. Let it get at least 6 hours of sunlight during the day.
    9. Check the progress everyday and watch the grass grow! grass grows inside the cd garden

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References

  • https://www.smithseed.com/sites/default/files/atoms/swf/How%20Grass%20Grows_0.swf
  • http://home.howstuffworks.com/grass.htm
  • http://www.farmwest.com/book/export/html/828

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