Grow Your Own Name

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Hi all,
quick question for you has anyone out the ever seen the grow your own name plants in the gatden centres
comes in a tiny pot with a bean in it and the name of your choice on it. well i bought 2 for my children and now there 5 feet tall i wondered if anyone else was gowing or has grown them

[shirlthegirl43]

Have seen them but my sons are a bit too old to be entertained by that. How long did the names last?

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they didnt even show. there names were on the side of the bean but when it came to see the names grow .. im still waiting ha ha ha.

[shirlthegirl43]

Oh, I thought the name was visible on the cotyledons (think that's what they are called - the bean bits that look like the first leaves) when the bean first grew. Bet your children were disappointed then, that is a pity.

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oh you have no idea. being as i have had to repot them as they seemed to be struggling and the names were on the side of the pots, all they keep asking is "which one's mine dad" bless um lol .

[shirlthegirl43]

Oh dear. I sowed Brandywine tomatoes this year and the boys selected a seedling each at first potting on time. They were labelled and a note made of which plant was which. Both boys took great interest in the plants growth - comparing whose was tallest, first to flower etc.

Both (they are 11 and 16) were almost in tears when we had to ditch the lot due to blight. Only consolation for them was that younger son grows dwarf beans and elder one is trying to grow melons so they had other plants to monitor but sadly without the competition of the tomatoes!

Might be worth yours sowing a sunflower seed each next year and putting a tag on with their name, less expensive than those kits methinks!

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my youngest son 11 and i planted sweet peas the most sented ones, and my daughter 13 planted everlasting sweet peas. now the sented ones are fantastic. ( and if you have never grown any you must the smell o m g)
any hoo the everlasting ones didnt seem to do anything for weeks and weeks till about now, where there about 3 feet tall.so like my kids need an excuse to have a go at each other my 11 year old keeps telling his sistor her's are sad, and she can not grow anything etc
but i bet my daughter will have the last laugh when our sented ones are dead had her everlasting ones will still be here ha ha ha

[Nicos]

Ok- way to make up to them then......If you are growing courgettes, scratch their name onto a 3-4" courgette and stand back!!!!
In a couple of weeks you'll have 2 marrows with their names on
Dead easy!!!

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nice one will try that

[crisb]

Surprising!

Hello from Barcelona!

This summer my sister went to Scotland and brought me a "Grow your own name" bean. I planted it and waited for as long as one month. Finally I saw that some roots were coming off the pot. During the following days the bean began coming off the pot too. Surprised, I decided to unplant the bean and I realised that the leaves were growing in the bottom of the pot. I was so stranged that I explained it to a friend who is studing farming and he told me that this is very uncommon, because plants always detect gravity. He wants to explain that to their teachers, but I need some help about this plant.

Does anyone know which species of plant is this bean?

Thank you all!!!

[Seahorse]

I bought a couple of these beans from Poundstretcher last year. They weren't grow your own name but had words like 'peace', 'love' etc on them. The words did indeed appear and my children were suitably impressed. The plants themselves never came to much though!

Claire

[seasprout]

Ok- way to make up to them then......If you are growing courgettes, scratch their name onto a 3-4" courgette and stand back!!!!
In a couple of weeks you'll have 2 marrows with their names on
Dead easy!!!

I have also seen this done with pumpkins, although it was a smiley face, looked very sinister.