Root Viewer
I found this Root Viewer at West Coast Seeds and thought it would make a pretty cool birthday gift for my friend’s daughter. It comes with 3 plastic beakers, a wooden stand, and peat pellets & seeds. The point is that you can watch your veggies growing in the beaker with a view of what’s happening both on top of and inside the soil.
My friends have a community garden plot, and their daughter just turned 3. The box says ‘8 yrs and up’ so I think my friends will be the ones tending to the seeds, but I think she is old enough to appreciate the outcome. Then when it’s time to visit the garden plot, she’ll have a sense of what’s going on in the ground too.
