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GROWING FERNS IN SOIL We are going to grow ferns in potting soil, in four pots. Get one long stem of a fern plant. The long stem and leaves that grow from it is called a frond. Let it dry for a week or so. Get some fine sand, and put the sand into a bowl of water and sswish it around with your hands. Pour off the water, being careful that the sand doesn't pour out, too, and put in some clean water so that you can do it again. Take out as much water as possible the last time you wash the sand. Put potting soil into four little pots, and put one-half inch of your clean sand on top of the potting soil. The soil and sand should not reach the very top of the pot. Ask an adult to pour boiling water over the sand and the pots so that there won't be any germs or mold on the pots or in the soil. Look at the fern frond. Turn it over and look on the bottom sides of its leaves. The tiny black spots are fern seeds, called "spores." Hold the frond over the pot and shake the frond. Some of the spores will fall off the frond onto the sand in your pots. Put the pots into a tray with a little water in it, or into four saucers with a little water in them. When the saucers are dry, pour a little more water into them. If you keep water in the saucers, or tray, you should not need to put water onto the sand. The soil will carry the water to the sand, so the spores will have all the water they need. (The water should not be deep, because too much water can make mold grow in the soil.) Put a piece of glass onto the pots, or cover each pot with plastic wrap (or a plastic sandwich bag), and stretch a rubber band around them so the plastic stays on the pots. Take them to a place inside where the there isn't very much light; not near a window. If the weather is warm, they could be outside in a shady place. If you put the pots into saucers, you could put some outside, in a shady place, and some inside, and watch to see if they grow differently.  Any problems with this page? Send URL to
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