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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

How to grow cress seeds

It was a rainy afternoon, so thought I'd start a little cress seed project with little man. 

Step one -  You will need a packet of cress seeds

 
 
  some cotton wool and a couple of plastic pots. We used two old trifle desert pots and the plastic tray our eggs came in.
 
 
Step two - place a small amount of cotton wool in the bottom of your plastic containers.
 
 
Step three - pour some water onto the cotton wool, needs to be a little moist.
 
 
Step four - get a hand full of seeds and sprinkle into each container.
 
 
 
Step five - place the pots into a small bag and tie loosely.
 
 
  
Step six - put them on a warm light window sill and water them daily and within 7 days you'll have nice yummy cress to put on your sandwiches.
 
A snack was needed by little man, planting cress is hard work haha.
 
 
Here's our day to day progress, they grew really fast.
 
Day 1 - Little round seeds
 
 
 
Day 2 - Some white shoots appearing
 

 
 
Day 3 - We have greenage!!
 

 

Day 4 - Getting bigger
 
 
 
 
Day 5
 
 
 
Day 6 - nearly bursting from the pots
 
 
 
 
I can't take anymore cress photos, so will end here. Going to have some nice egg butty's I think and polish a few pots off.
 
How to grow cress seeds was presented by little man.
 
Sorry about the mucky paint hands, we had a painting session before we started potting.




 

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