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wheat grass-filled easter baskets
In high school, I spent many an afternoon at my friend Colby’s house. In a bright corner of her home, her mom used to grow grass in a shallow pot perched on a beautiful pedestal every spring. Colby said it was for their Easter baskets. At that very moment, I decided I would always use real grass in my own kids’ (yet to be born) Easter baskets.
Well, through years of living in apartments with not-so-sunny windows, and then three years in a house where I learned that I couldn’t grow a dandelion if I tried, and then back to an apartment with no sun at all, my well-intentioned hope chest dreams have turned into plastic strands of pink and purple easter grass, choked up in swirling vacuums.
Still, every year, in the back of my head, I think, Darn, why didn’t I grow real grass for their baskets this year? To which I respond, Oh, yeah, my apartment has no sun/I kill plants/my apartment still has no sunlight.
This year, though, I had a breakthrough. I discovered our health food store sells wheat grass for juicing. Now, I probably noticed it years ago, but it wasn’t until this year that I remembered I could use it for something other than a power shake.
To fill the baskets, use kitchen shears to cut a piece of sod the size and shape of your Easter basket. A half flat of wheat grass—which is all I need for my brood—costs about $5 at my local health food store. If you can’t find any near you, you may want to check with a smoothy shop and ask if they’ll sell you some. Or, you could remember about this next year, and simply plant your own. You’ll probably have more luck with it than I did.
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That’s a great idea, I’m sure the kids will love it.
That is just about the cutest thing ever!
Oh, that is clever!
I have a little pot sitting on my kitchen window. Something about it is so soothing to me. I will run my fingers over it again and again and suddenly I am calm. Sounds weird, but it really works. Especially when you live in Pittsburgh and it rains 300 of the 365 days in a year!
We grow some each year but sometimes I do it too late and it looks so sad and stumpy. Thanks for the tip
Twyla–Doesn’t sound weird. I wish I had more chances to be out in nature for the very same reason.
What a fabulous idea! So much easier than growing it.
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PS – My kids will have real grass in their baskets. So cool.