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.

 

 

 

Pie and custard mmmmmm

I haven't been on here in a while, little man started school in April and he's having a few problems adjusting poor sod. So were on a trial and error adventure at the moment to find what will make him settle. Any way we've been up to lots of things since last being on, so the posts will be rolling soon.

It was nice and sunny yesterday, so had a quick cup of tea in the garden and checked out, how are fruit was coming on.

Gooseberry's mmmmm nearly time for pie and custard.

 

 

 

The super market had an offer on bug boxes last week so I snapped a few up, thought it would be a good project for little man.

 

Here's our little green box, pride of place and void of all life haha.

 

 

One day you'll poke it and somethings gonna getttttt yoooou.

 

 

My strawberry's have lots of flower buds on. I've put them up on the top shelf this year, because the only thing eating those strawberry's last year was slugs and woodlice.

 

Some herbs and my fox glove.

 

My favourite, mint. Can't live without my minted potatoes.

 



Cut down a load of over grown bushes and trees last week, so plently of wood for the burner this summer.

 



Here's the raspberry bush flowers.

 



 

 

 

 

 

Sand Sculptors 2016

The sand sculptors have come back again this year. Here's a lady finishing off a tribute to David Bowie.  

 

They had a sand play section, so the kids could have a go. Little man enjoyed himself.

The Egyptian theme was quite good, takes some doing creating all these scenes.

Firer fighters.

Think this was to bring attention to the doctors having trouble with their contracts and stuff.

Aliens and rocket ships.

Some of them were a bit random.

This is a freaky one.

My favourite, super heros.

Hello donkeys, we have missed you over the winter!