Grow your own bottle gourds with Suttons 'fun to grow' Arty Bottles Kit and decorate them afterwards with paint.

Arty Bottles kit contains:

• 3 x 7.5cm pots
• Magic Compost blocks
• Seed Sachet
• Activity Sheet

Sow: Mid April - June

How to use your Arty Bottles kit:

1. Place the compost blocks in the pots in an empty sink.  Add water and watch the blocks grow like magic.
2. Level the compost and push one seed into the compost surface for each pot (you can use your other seeds in further pots).
3. Place pots on a warm windowsill but not in direct sunshine (20-25C).  Keep the compost moist and when your young plants emerge grow on a windowsill in a cooler room (18-20C).
4. When your plants are approximately 10-15cm high in June-July plant out 1.5m apart from other plants.

Harvest your Arty Bottle Gourds between mid August and October and store in a cool, dry place.  By late November/December they should be thoroughly dry and you can now decorate them either with sitckers or with the use paints ... just in time for Christmas!!

Fun Facts about Bottle Gourds:

DID YOU KNOW that Japanese children grow these gourds and paint them as Christmas Decorations?

DID YOU KNOW that in Africa these gourds are still used - dried and hollowed out and used for storing liquid?

Learning: Your child will learn elements of the National Curriculum including seed germination and plant growth.  Growing from seed teaches a child dexterity and in teh case of this kit art skills in decorating.