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Fern Nursery

Fern Nursery
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Are you an enthusiastic tennis player/botanist? chances are you have several cases of tennis balls laying around. This Instructables will show you how to use up those empty containers to grow a your own (nearly care free) baby ferns right on your windowsill! I tried this just as an experiment and it worked so well that i felt i should share this idea.

Please Note: I had to go back and retake pictures of the whole project so some of the things aren't exactly they same from picture to picture.

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Step 1Tools & Supplies

Tools & Supplies
There are very few things needed for this project.

Materials:
Tennis Ball container
Cardboard tube
Tape
Soil
A pinch of love

Tools:
Drill
Scissors
Garden Trowel
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5 comments
Jul 7, 2009. 12:41 PMhydrnium.h2 says:
I sort of assumed you were going to eat the fiddle heads, not just grow them. I hear they taste like spinach.
Sep 23, 2010. 4:33 PMQueenQuill says:
I didn't know that any ferns were edible! So I looked it up, and yes, at least one variety is edible!  See: http://extension.umaine.edu/publications/4060e/  I wish these grew where I live (Utah).  I wonder if I could buy some....
Jun 25, 2009. 9:05 AMFather Christmas says:
Is the pinch of love really necessary? Because, I am kinda running low right now.
Jun 22, 2009. 3:41 PMlemonie says:
I'm surrounded by ferns, they're like weeds. Still they're quite nice. Good Instructable. L

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