This post is sponsored by Hurst Beans.

Have you ever wondered if you can grow beans from a bundle of dried beans from the grocery store? The reply is yep, y'all can! We are showing you how to practice this using a packet of Hurst'due south HamBeens 15 Bean Soup.

This common cold winter conditions calls for our 15-Bean and Turkey Tedious Cooker Soup recipe. Before you soak the stale beans, grab a handful of them to plant with your kids for a fun growing projection at dwelling house.

A bean shoot growing in a peat pot from a dried bean

Can yous grow beans from stale store-bought beans?

My girl and I did this projection together and accept enjoyed watching our beans sprout. Follow along as we show you how we grew bean shoots from shop-bought dried beans.

Supplies needed

  • An assortment of Hurst's HamBeens 15 Edible bean Soup
  • Window greenhouse seed starter dome and tray
  • Biodegradable peat pots
  • Organic starter potting mix
  • Spray bottle with water

We purchased a window greenhouse seed starter kit from our local hardware store that came with a plastic tray for starting seeds. Nevertheless, I decided to remove that and replace information technology with biodegradable peat pots. This makes it easier to transplant the bean shoots as they outgrow the dome into larger pots. You lot simply found the peat pots direct into the soil without trying to remove the plant from the plastic containers which can go messy.

Instructions

Use scissors to cutting each individual peat pot from the others. This mode if some beans sprout quicker than others and outgrow the dome you can transplant them easily without disturbing the others. You will run across from the image below that nosotros actually did this after filling them with soil, but just because I didn't think of it right away, it came to me subsequently.

a package of Hurst HamBeens dried beans mix with peat pots and soil for planting the dried beans

Put a single bean into the heart of each pot and push information technology under the soil just a niggling with your finger.

A girl planting dried garbanzo beans, cranberry beans, and black beans in soil to grow bean plants.
dried beans in peat pots being pushed under the soil to grow

Cover the beans with soil. Spray each of the peat pots making sure that the soil is damp, but not drowning.

spray peat pots filled with soil and dried beans for growing

These are the dried beans that we planted (in lodge left to right). We planted two of each so yous tin can run into from the photos how quickly some of the beans have grown compared to others.

  • Northern Beans
  • Pinto Beans
  • Big Lima Beans
  • Garbanzo Beans
  • Cranberry Beans
  • Black Beans
  • Pink Beans
  • Kidney Beans

Note: The merely varieties in the packet that won't sprout are the light-green and xanthous split peas.

Put the dome over your tray and place it in front of a window that gets natural light and sun. The best spot for ours is on our bedroom windowsill that gets afternoon sunlight.

a girl putting a window box with seeds to grow on a windowsill

Timeline of dried beans growing

The stale beans were planted on January 20th.

xvi days after planting

By Feb the 5th we were beginning to finally come across some movement.

dried beans growing after 16 days from planting

19 days after planting

On Feb the 8th, we woke up to our get-go shoot from one of the lima beans. You can likewise see tiny sprouts starting to course from the Northern and garbanzo beans.

lima beans sprouting in a window box

23 days after planting

Past the morning of February twelfth we noticed and then much more than movement when we checked on the sprouts.

dried beans that have grown into shoots in a window box
pink beans and kidney beans growing in a window box from dried beans

26 days afterward planting

February 15th some of our bean shoots are now touching the peak of the dome. We've been through an ice and snow storm so the window is cold, but we accept a heating vent underneath which I approximate is keeping the plants warm. They are now gear up to transplant into larger pots just as soon equally this wintertime weather passes.

bean shoots growing 26 days after dried beans were planted
bean shoots growing in peat pots on a windowsill 26 days after dried beans were planted

WHERE TO BUY HURST BEANS

If you are looking to find Hurst's 15 BEAN SOUP locally to try your own planting project (and our delicious soup recipe), check out the store locator on hurstbeans.com.

Tonya Staab is an Aussie residing in Kentucky who is a single mom of iii. She spends her days working from abode while eating also many donuts and is probably however wearing her pajamas.

Check out her latest DIY projects and recipes on her weblog.