Posts Tagged ‘cress’

@Four Weeks

So much going on and so little time to do things!   I have added a whole load of extra things this week, so comments are with the photos.  It has been sun sun sun, hot hot hot all week, which has meant lots of watering although only on the small things.  Everything else has [...]

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Yum Yum Cress

Tonight we took our first cuttings of cress!  Very tasty….

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@Three Weeks

We are certainly in business now.  Sunflowers have been outside for a week and while we have lost three of them, the remaining ones are still going.   We have planted a couple of new ones straight into the ground and are awaiting them to appear, we still need to plant one indoors and then [...]

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Cress – Take Two

Time to try again, who can actually kill cress??!  Well it seems we can, so we have sowed some more seed onto toilet paper and lets see how it goes.  I think last time we over watered it and maybe the stems rotted a bit which killed them.  

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The Cress is Dead!

Whoops!   How can you kill cress?   I think maybe we over watered it one morning, it seemed to go all yellow and start to look rather dead. Good job we have a lot of seed and it is quick to grow.  We will plant some more…..

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@One Week

Sunflowers, all up and growing.  Been suggested to me by a friend that I should use cocktail sticks, lolly sticks, and then finally canes, to aid these things to grown nice and striaght and long.  Off to the shop for some lollies…. Sunflowers: Cress: Salad:

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